You mean the article's characterization of Odum's sharpness once after he's been cajoled by two Conspiracy Kooks.
Where does it say that Odum was "cajoled" by anybody? Or did you just make that up out of thin air?
Well the authors aren't going to admit that's what happened.
What's in the rest of the phone transcript of their call to Odum? Is there a transcript for their visit to Odum?
Rather than ignoring it, why don't you try to explain the absense of the FD 302's Odum said he would have produced (as was custom at the FBI) if he had spoken to Tomlinson and Wright?
Some requests from the Commission didn't warrant FD-302s. (
Link ) FD-302s are normally done for criminal cases that could lead to a trial; Odum probably had an active case load of such investigations. Which is why he later thought he would have prepared a 302 for the requests from the Commission, when he probably only relayed what he was told to the author of the AirTel.
And while you are at it, explain to us please why Tomlinson is on record, twice, saying that he was only shown a bullet once, about a week after the assassination, by SAC Shaklin at Parkland Hospital.
We know for certain this happened as it is also mentioned in a Secret Service report.
So, Tomlinson say only SAC Shanklin showed him a bullet, in december 1963,
Possible Tomlinson forgot about the July 1964 visit or thought the interviewer in 1966 wanted to know about the first time he was shown the bullet after the assassination.
Marcus: Did anybody show you the bullet after the time you found
it, and after the time you gave it to Mr. Wright?
Tomlinson: I seen it one time after that. I believe Mr. Shanklin from
the FBI had it out there at the hospital in personnel with
Mr. Wright there when they called me in.
Marcus: When Shanklin and Mr. Wright called you in at that time,
did they show you the bullet?
Tomlinson: Yes.
Marcus: Did they ask you if it looked like the same one?
Tomlinson: Yes, I believe they did.
Marcus: And as far as you could tell--- of course, you weren't making
a ballistics test of it--- but as far as you could tell, did it look like
the same one to you?
Tomlinson: Yes, it appeared to be the same one.
SA Odum denies he ever showed Tomlinson and Wright a bullet in june 1964
Odum said he couldn't remember.
One can gauge the primary motivation for Aguilar/Thompson's cajoling of Odum, with:
"For not only was Odum’s name absent from the FBI’s once
secret files, it was also it difficult to imagine a motive for
him to besmirch the reputation of the agency he had
worked for and admired."
The guy said he couldn't remember but that it might have happened. But the authors score it as a victory that "besmirches" the Bureau.
and there are no FD 302 reports that should have been on file if Odum had talked to both men.
The AirTel has all the information and is formatted the same same as a FC-302. Odum was 82 and trying to remember some insignificant request mission from four decades ago (the "Magic Bullet" acquired most of its notoriety later). Odum might have thought they were talking about him having the bullet in hand on the day of the assassination. We'll never know because the authors' phone and visit transcripts are sealed until 2072.