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...security purposes, McGraw-Hill and LIFE named the enterprise Project Octavio. When LIFE received the transcripts, two editors closeted themselves in a suite in Manhattan's Elysee Hotel and then spent the better part of two days poring over them. Only three LIFE editors and a handful of McGraw-Hill executives knew about the project. Once work began on the actual publication, the book publishers locked away first the transcripts and later the galleys in a vault every night. For fear of theft or bombing, they declined to say whether the vault was in the McGraw-Hill Building. The measures...
...been deteriorating steadily over the months, Irving said. At those meetings, Hughes lay in bed, wheezing heavily and frequently waving Irving out of the room. Had Hughes read the manuscript? The weak reply: "As much as I could." That was the morning of Dec. 7, the day that McGraw-Hill announced the book in New York. Hughes signed the typed, finished version of a preface to the book. When Irving sought another meeting four days later, Hughes' intermediary was "in a flap" and said he could not arrange it. Irving never saw Hughes again...
Irving's version of how the book was assembled was almost instantly challenged. The McGraw-Hill and LIFE announcement of the book brought a denial of its authenticity from Hughes Tool Co. representatives in California. On Dec. 14, the company's general counsel, Chester Davis, appeared in Time Inc.'s New York offices and put through a telephone call to a man purporting to be Hughes. The man spoke with Frank McCulloch, New York bureau chief for the Time-Life News Service. McCulloch, the last reporter to interview Hughes face-to-face-in 1958-believes that it was Hughes...
...however, Irving would have to be a near genius of a writer. He would also have had to forge a body of documents, among them the Hughes letter to Irving acknowledging receipt of his book Fake!; four handwritten letters, including the nine-page letter to the McGraw-Hill president; and checks-made out to Hughes for $700,000 as payment for the book, endorsed by Hughes and cleared through a Zurich banking house called Credit Suisse. Irving would also have had to forge Hughes' handwriting in the extensive pencil editing that Hughes did in the margins of the original transcript...
Some observers nonetheless suspect forgery. Handwriting analysis will undoubtedly be the focus of the case; Hughes' lawyers may ask for an Internal Revenue Service investigation, saying that he never received McGraw-Hill checks. The noted New York handwriting experts Osborn Associates have verified that the handwriting on those documents matches samples of Hughes' handwriting dating back to 1936. At that time, Hughes was booked in a Los Angeles police station, where his fingerprints and signature were recorded after his car struck and killed a pedestrian (the charges were dropped). The present handwriting is also said to match Hughes' signatures...