Den lille britiske avisen Cambridge News ble oppringt om at den amerikanske ambassaden i London kom til å ha en stor nyhet, 25 minutter før Kennedy ble skutt i Dallas.

A memo dated 26 November 1963 said the call was made to the Cambridge News at 18:05 GMT on 22 November 1963.

This was 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas.

A copy of the memo was released by the National Archives in the US in July, but had gone unreported.

It was revealed again when the latest batch of documents relating to the assassination were released on Thursday.

Problemet er at man ikke har funnet ut hvem reporteren som mottok oppringeren var. Hvordan vet man da at det skjedde? Han kontaktet britisk etterretning og fortalte dem om oppringingen, og MI5 varslet FBI, der nestleder James Angleton laget et dokument, som ble frigitt i juli, men ikke verdsatt for alvor før nå.

The document, from the deputy director of the FBI James Angleton to the director, J Edgar Hoover, said the British Security Service (MI5) had reported that the call was made to the senior reporter of the newspaper.

The memo read: “The caller said only that the Cambridge News reporter should call the American Embassy in London for some big news and then hung up.

“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 had never received a call of this kind before, and MI5 state that he is known to them as a sound and loyal person with no security record.”

Noen ønsket å sende en melding som satte spekulasjonene i gang. 25 før attentatet var det ikke Lee Harvey Oswald som ringte. Så hvem var det?

En advokat Michael Eddowes fikk fatt i et dokument hvor oppringingen ble omtalt og han begynte å grave. Eddowes ble overbevist om at det sto en sammensvergelse bak drapet på Kennedy. Men hvorfor skulle noen ville avsløre det? Å ringe før noe skjedde var den sikreste måten å validere at advarselen var ekte.

“A London solicitor, Michael Eddowes, started to investigate a document he found allegedly from the CIA,” he said.

“In that document it was mentioned a call had been made to the Cambridge News warning that something big was going to happen…

“We don’t know whether that call was ever made, we don’t know which reporter took the call and we don’t know what the reason possibly could have been for anyone ringing a newspaper in Cambridge about it.”

Mr Elliott said Mr Eddowes, who died in 1992, was “convinced there was some kind of conspiracy” and the call might have been one of a number made to newspapers and other media to try to foster the idea that there was a conspiracy to kill the president.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-41773716