The 2025 JFK files expose a previously unknown asset-or operative-linked to Oswald, Cuba, and the CIA’s darkest corners.
🚪 A Name in the Static
Tucked away in a stack of declassified intercepts is a name that didn’t appear in any previous investigations: LARKSPUR.
The name shows up in:
- A CIA cable referencing “active Havana routing via LARKSPUR”
- An NSA intercept mentioning a “confirmed meeting between [REDACTED] and LARKSPUR, location Mexico City, Nov. 2”
The strange thing?
After Nov. 22, no further references appear.
Anywhere.
📁 Who-or What-Was LARKSPUR?
The 2025 documents offer several possible clues:
- A partially declassified briefing describes LARKSPUR as “a trusted intermediary with Latin American access points”
- An earlier memo from 1962 identifies LARKSPUR as “used in Cuban informant operations, not officially on the books”
- The language consistently places LARKSPUR outside official CIA personnel channels-suggesting a freelance spy, double agent, or cutout
🧠 LARKSPUR and Oswald: The Lost Link?
A Nov. 5, 1963 intercept from Mexico City reads:
“LARKSPUR requests clarification on ‘LEE’s handling protocol’ if contact is re-established.”
Who was “LEE”?
The files don’t say outright-but the Mexico City timeline places Oswald there that week.
What kind of “handling protocol” was needed?
For a lone nut?
🔥 Scrubbed Clean
By Nov. 23, 1963, internal documents begin referencing a “sensitive phaseout” of an unnamed operative. One memo notes:
“Assets under Havana routing to be retired, cover removed. LARKSPUR included.”
A week later, LARKSPUR disappears completely.
There’s no closure. No final cable. No termination record.
Even in internal file inventories, LARKSPUR’s name is struck through by hand.
🕵️♂️ Parallel to Other Cutouts
Researchers now speculate LARKSPUR may have functioned similarly to:
- George Joannides’ DRE contacts
- David Atlee Phillips’ informant rings in Mexico City
- Or even James Angleton’s “off-books” CI assets
But there’s no confirmation.
Only a name-and its sudden erasure.
🔚 Erased, But Not Forgotten
The JFK records dump of 2025 gave us names, faces, and files.
But in the case of LARKSPUR, we got something more disturbing:
A missing piece that someone worked very hard to hide.
Maybe LARKSPUR was the missing thread between Oswald, Cuba, and Langley.
Or maybe they were something even stranger: the one who got too close to the truth.