‘Spy rang British paper 25 mins before killing’
A BRITISH newspaper received a mystery tip-off moments before the assassination of President Kennedy, it is claimed.
The new files say an anonymous caller rang the Cambridge News in November 1963, just 25 minutes before the shooting.
MI5 said the unnamed caller told a reporter to “call the American Embassy in London for some big news” before hanging up.
A memo detailing the assertion was sent to then-fbi director J Edgar Hoover by his deputy James Angleton.
MI5 advised their CIA counterparts at the time that the reporter was “known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record”.
It was said yesterday that a suspected Soviet spy from Grimsby may have been the mystery caller.
Experts say Albert Osborne spent time with killer Lee Harvey Oswald in the weeks before the Dallas assassination.
The Baptist preacher and suspected Soviet agent was in Lincolnshire with his sister when the shooting took place.
And researcher Dick Russell said the mystery call to the Cambridge News was made “a short distance from Grimsby”. But other former Cambridge News staff who worked on the paper in the 1960s said they doubted the call ever happened. Rodney Tibbs, 83, who was then a junior reporter, said: “No such call was received as far as I’m concerned. The proof is that no story of that nature was ever published at the time. You wouldn’t just sit on a story like that. I don’t remember any discussion about such a phone call.” Ex-editor Keith Whetstone said in 1981: “It sounds like a completely fictitious story.”