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EXCERPT from The Dallas Morning News of a related story:
General doesn't trust Bush memos' authenticity
CBS quoted Guard documents to him, but he didn't see them
10:50 PM CDT on Saturday, September 11, 2004
By PETE SLOVER / The Dallas Morning News

A former Texas Air National Guard general relied upon by CBS News to support the authenticity of memos about President Bush's military service said he never saw the memos before the show aired, and that he doesn't now believe they are authentic.
Retired Maj. Gen. Bobby Hodges of Arlington also said that one of the memos' references to undue pressure to "sugar coat" Mr. Bush's evaluations rings false. He said Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt did not interfere in Guard affairs after his retirement, 18 months before the date on the disputed memo.
A CBS spokeswoman said that, despite Gen. Hodges remarks, CBS 60 Minutes stands by the program aired on Wednesday.
"We believe the documents are genuine. We stand by our story and will continue to report on it," Sandy Genelius said.
Gen. Hodge's comments come amid other questions about the authenticity of four memos 60 Minutes relied on to show that the president received special treatment as a pilot in the early '70s, failed to carry out a superior's order to undergo a physical exam and was suspended from flying for failing to meet Air National Guard standards.
Typography experts have also raised questions about the memos, stirring a vigorous debate about whether they were computer-drafted on machines not available in the early 1970s.
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On Monday evening, a 60 Minutes producer called Gen. Hodges and read him over the telephone portions of the four memos allegedly written by the now deceased Lt. Col. Jerry Killian.
Gen. Hodges says that when he was asked to verify the memos, he believed that the documents were handwritten.
"Without seeing them, I assumed that they were hand-written notes from a personal file that Lt. Col. Killian (who died in 1984) may have maintained without anyone's knowledge," Mr. Hodges wrote in a statement he released on Saturday.
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