JFK Files: Newly released records reveal anonymous tip to newspaper, link to Soviet Union10/27/2017 Among the 2,891 items declassified by the U.S. Government in Thursday's release are details of Lee Harvey Oswald's links with the Soviet Union and an anonymous tip to a British newspaper 25 minutes before JFK was assassinated.Several key details from the newly declassified files are gaining attention, especially accounts from before the assassination. Weeks before the murder of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald met with a Soviet assignation agent, documents show. The files also show that the U.S. was keeping tabs on him and that Moscow questioned Oswald's mental state. Files also shows a mystery call was made to a senior reporter at the Cambridge News on November 22, 1963, at 6:05 p.m. local time. Kennedy was shot shortly afterwards at 12:30 p.m. central time. "The caller said only that the Cambridge News Reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up," the memo from the CIA's James Angleton to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said. One memo was first released in July, but went unreported until the group of files were released Thursday. The memo, dated November 26, 1963, reads: "After the word of the President's death was received the reporter informed the Cambridge police of the anonymous call, and the police informed MI5. The important point is that the call was made, according to MI5 calculations, about 25 minutes before the President was shot. The Cambridge reporter has never received a call of this kind before, and the MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal personal with no security record." MI5 is Britain's domestic security agency. The memo was originally discovered by a lawyer, Michael Eddowes, who has spent his life investigating Kennedy's death. Eddowes, who died in 1992, told the Cambridge News in 1981 that he believed the anonymous caller was a British-born Soviet named Albert Osborne. Two months before Kennedy's assassination, Eddowes believed that Osborne, who used the alias John Howard Bowen, had friended Oswald. Sources: www.newsweek.com/lee-harvey-oswald-and-soviet-union-what-jfk-files-reveal-694441 www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/27/british-newspaper-got-anonymous-call-25-minutes-before-jfk-assassination/805893001/
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