BRIT KGB SPY TIP-OFF BEFORE JFK MURDER
Warning call to newspaper
A MYSTERIOUS phone call warning US President John F Kennedy would be assassinated was made from Grimsby just 25 minutes before the shooting.
Explosives documents released in America yesterday reveal an anonymous caller phoned a newspaper in Cambridge and said: “Call the US Embassy in London for some big news.”
That was at 6.05pm on November 22, 1963. At exactly 12.30pm US Central Time – which is six hours behind British time – JFK was gunned down as he rode in an open-top motorcade through Dealey Plaza, Dallas.
Spooks suspect the call was made by British-born Soviet agent Albert Osborne, a close friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested as the assassin.
Two days later Oswald, in an another sinister twist, was then shot dead while in police custody by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
The Grimsby-Cambridge connection has been kept hushed up for 54 years.
Staff at the Cambridge News are now desperately trying to identify the reporter who took the call.
However, not everyone accepts the claims made in the US documents.
Rodney Tibbs, 83, who worked at the paper during the 1960s, insisted: “No such call was received as far as I’m concerned.”
The memo was among more than 3,100 documents in the JFK files which have never before been seen by the public.
Another one claims police officer J.D. Tippit was JFK’s real killer.
Tippit was shot and killed in Dallas 45 minutes after Kennedy’s murder.
Also among the documents is a letter warning JFK of a new book accusing him of being involved in the death of film star Marilyn Monroe.
President Donald Trump has blocked the juiciest aspects of the report, citing “national security”.