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Yup, it would be extremely difficult to say the least, even with all alleged tricks suggested in the article (old printing press etc.). Also creating a forged document to fool a casual examination is far easier to produce than one that will be known to be under intense scrutiny. Think an altered driver's license intended for use in a smoky nightclub versus a forged million pound banknote examined by experts using all their powers of observation. The former relatively easy, the latter extremely difficult if not impossible.

And the other reason I don’t buy the old printing press/typwriter story is the same reason the troothers who think the government was behind the the World Trade center destruction look like complete idiots. We are talking about a government that could screw up a two car funeral. All the hundreds if not thousands of conspirators involved would make for a lot of loose lips.

Ink from old typewriters was simply carbon powder and solvent bound to a fabric ribbon.

You could theoretically make your own using a charcoal pencil bought at any art store.

You can still buy vintage typewriter ribbons on eBay if you don’t feel like making your own.
There are reams of old paper still languishing in office supply warehouses, everywhere.
You can also buy vintage typewriters on ebay.
They’re actually very popular collectibles.

I used to “age” old furniture to make it look ancient.

An antiques “expert” once offered me a large sum of money for a “primitive” chest I had in the living room, unaware that I’d skillfully made it look 100 years older than it really was.

Faking “ancient” things is not rocket science; in fact, it’s very easily, simply and primitively done.

Want a “Colonial” chest of drawers?

Buy a circa 1920-1940 “Empire Revival” chest, preferably with hand cut dovetails, soak off the walnut/mahogany veneer to expose the pine, oak or maple underneath, let it dry in the sun, smack it with some used, dirty tire chains, lightly sand it in the expected “wear sposts”, smear some walnut hull “ink” on it and then some beeswax then replace the glass/porcelain knobs with round wooden ones.

Voila....you got yourself a nice “Colonial” chest.

You’d be amazed how easy it is to fake old stuff.

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/rt/age/age.html

They would need to correct folder jacket to insert the BC, with the correct label in which the correct numerical identifiers would be on the label and handwritten notations, with supporting documents all using the correct paper, for each, and the correct ink.

This would all have to be inserted into the library, in between other birth records, etcetera, etcetera, etcerta.

All using 48 year old technologies.

When you produce a document you have to prove its provenance.