It seems that noone, no matter how talented, could have created these on an IBM Executive.
1. Time New Roman was not available on that machine, or any typewriter, per the font encyclopedia (Haas, I think it is).
2. Kerning.
3. Proportional line spacing.
4. The closest IBM font, Adjutant, when used to type these memos on an Executive (per a post I can't find), looks nothing like the forged CBS docs.
This approaches quibbling as you agree the docs are certainly forgeries, but I don't agree that the documents could have been created on an IBM Executive. I think you have agreed with the kerning issue, but I haven't seen you address the line spacing, the nonavailability of the font on typewriters, or the dissimilarity to Adjutant. We are completely agreed that the overlay is dispositive.
For my part, my original blanket statement that there was no proportional spacing on typewriters back in 1972 was obviously wrong, but I was still right that these are forgeries and I was right that these documents couldn't have been created on 1972 office equipment - maybe at that point I didn't know exactly why I was right. :)
I think the best explanation for the scenario is that CBS wanted to believe it so bad they did, even though they should have known better, or they just hate Bush so much they disregarded the red flags. Same w/ the DNC and the rest of the dems. That is a lot more plausible than Rube Golberg conspiracies with a triple fake shake and bake back somersault with a full twist.
Regards,
Buckhead, you know the Executive typewriter was a dodo bird from the start. Expensive. Clunky. IMPOSSIBLE to correct mistakes. Impossible to get serviced. We had one in my office, but nobody wanted to use it. I learned how to use it (one of the few to do so) but we had if for less than a year because of all the problems. I can't imagine a National Guard office springing for such a white elephant. So although the technology did exist, it was not widespread enough to be probable within that milieu.