Document 180-10145-10265, released as part of the 2025 JFK files, contains an FBI summary of a phone call placed to the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia, just hours after Lee Harvey Oswald was named the chief suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The caller claimed to be Soviet, offered a cryptic warning-and then hung up.
The details were relayed to Washington, but never followed up.
The memo is short.
The implications are long.
☎️ The Anonymous Warning
At 5:30 p.m. local time on November 23, 1963, a man with a Russian accent called the U.S. Embassy in Canberra.
He spoke briefly to the Marine guard on duty and said he had urgent information about the Kennedy assassination.
“The man said Oswald was part of a larger group… and that the assassination was only the beginning.”
Before more could be asked, he hung up.
🧩 A Lone Call in the Shadow of Global Paranoia
The embassy relayed the call to the FBI and CIA. It was flagged and filed. But nothing came of it.
The report, now declassified, gives no indication the caller was ever identified, or that any investigation followed. His voice, his claim, and his fear vanished with the dial tone.
In a week where paranoia ran high and conspiracy theories bloomed overnight, this call fit too neatly-and yet slipped too easily through the cracks.
🔍 Ignored, Forgotten, or Buried?
There are no follow-up memos.
No responses. No coordinated checks with intelligence services in Australia or the USSR.
Whether officials viewed the call as a hoax or something more serious isn’t recorded.
What is clear is this: no action was taken.
Another ghost in the files.
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