Britain warned of JFK plot 3 months before assassination

Heavily redacted files released

- Christopher Bucktin

BRITAIN told the CIA that Lee Harvey Oswald planned to kill John F Kennedy just months before the assassination, files reveal.

The claim was contained in more than 2,000 documents released by Donald Trump into the death of the US president in November 1963.

A man named as Sergyj Czornonoh said he was held in London on July 18, 1963, and was questioned by authorities. He said he knew about a murder plot by Oswald.

Britain warned the CIA the following month.