Well I can see why CBS thought they were real with verification like that....
Not to mention Killian's son reported in the hanniryt radio show that that CBS refused to follow up on suggestions that he had made to them for knowledgeable people to interview. The women doing the leg work for Rather actually told him one of the people he had suggested was pro-Bush and essentiually useless (meaning he could not be used in the report).
The problem is they told the General they were handwritten not typed.