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I believe Baelish was dismissed from Riverrun after his duel with Brandon Stark. He soon found a job as a customs officer in Gulltown due to Lysa's influence (she was by then married to Jon Arryn). He didn't come to King's Landing for some time after the rebellion. And while the proximity of Jon's birthplace ("a bastard born in the south") isn't a secret, his parentage remains unknown to Baelish. That is not the same thing as denying to Sansa that he's Ned's son. You're reading too much into that one! And while I agree that the presence of Kingsguards at the Tower of Joy was to specifically protect an unborn Jon Snow, nobody else in the upper-echelons of Westerosi society are even aware that Jon was born at the Tower of Joy in Dorne. As for the three midwives, nobody knows where they are, or if they're still alive. Baelish has a very wide network, but even he doesn't know everything that happened in Westeros before he became the Master of Coin.