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I don’t recall anything about the Holy Chafetz Chaim foretelling, I do know that R’ Elchonon did, and he was quite open about it. He wrote about it in Kuntraisim (forgot which). Other Torah giants and Tzadikkim were also quite open about it, they urged their flock to do Tshuva, mend their ways. Some, like in the time of the Churban, were hushed, “why are you making such a tumult?”, etc. and their reply was, “what should I do? We’re saying what we see”.