I'm just presenting the analysis one expert forensic document examiner that specializes in typefaces, so, ignoring the statements by Killian's family that disavow the documents, ignoring the inconsistencies in tone, format and the active military status of individuals mentioned in the memo, soley based on forensic typographical analysis, it is highly unlikely that the documents are real, and if someone can verify that a 1972 IBM Composer cannot kern (or auto center, for that matter), then it will be completely verified that the documents are frauds.
Once again, I am not commenting on the myriad of other angles that question this story, merely providing an in depth summary of Dr. Bouffard's findings. To quote:
"Because it takes such a stretch to come up with all of the remote possibilities involved in creating the (CBS) document, it is much more likely that it is a computer generated document.... I can't imagine the Composer would have enough memory (to kern)."
UPDATE: A commenter points me to Donald Sensing's analysis of the IBM Selectric Composer:
It is 100% mechanical and has no digital electronics. Since it has no memory, the user was required to type everything twice.
Based on the fact that computer memory is required to possibly create the kerning (and automatic centering) of the CBS document in question, combined with Dr. Bouffard's expert analysis of nearly 4,000 fonts and corresponding machines, I feel confident declaring "game over."
Let's see what CBS has to say. Right now, they have to make the mother of all defenses.
