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Identity of 'Deep Throat' Source Revealed By SHARON THEIMER, Associated
Press Writer
1 hour, 34 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark
Felt stepped forward Tuesday as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post
source that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Within hours, the paper ratified his claim.
"It's the last secret" of the story, said Ben Bradlee, the paper's top
editor at the time the riveting political drama played out three decades
ago.
It tumbled out in stages during the day - first when a lawyer quoted Felt in
a magazine article as having said he was the source; then when the former
FBI man's family issued a statement hailing him as a "great American hero,"
and finally when the Post posted a story on its Web site confirming him as
the secret leaker of long ago.
"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," Felt, the former No. 2 man at
the FBI, was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair.
He kept his secret even from his family for almost three decades before his
declaration.
Felt, who lives in Santa Rosa, Calif., is said to be in poor mental and
physical health because of a stroke. His family did not immediately make him
available for comment, asking the news media to respect his privacy "in view
of his age and health."
A grandson, Nick Jones, read a statement. "The family believes that my
grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and
beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a
horrible injustice," it said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see
him this way as well."
In a statement issued later, Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein said, "W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably
in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources
and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories
that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate."
The reporters and Bradlee had kept the identity of Deep Throat secret at his
request, saying his name would be revealed upon his death. But then Felt
revealed it himself.
Even the existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for an X-rated movie of the
early 1970s, was kept secret for a time. Woodward and Bernstein revealed
their reporting had been guided by a Nixon administration source in their
best-selling book "All the President's Men."
A hit movie starring Robert Redford as Woodward, Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein
and Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat was made in 1976. In the film, Holbrook's
shadowy, cigarette-smoking character would meet Redford in dark parking
garages and provide clues about the scandal.
The movie portrayed the cloak-and-dagger methods that Woodward and Deep
Throat were said to have employed. When Woodward wanted a meeting, he would
position an empty flowerpot containing a red flag on his apartment balcony.
When Deep Throat wanted to meet, the hands of a clock would appear written
inside Woodward's New York Times.
The identity of the source has sparked endless speculation over the last
three decades. Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig, White House press aide
Diane Sawyer, White House counsel John Dean and speechwriter Pat
Buchanan were among those mentioned as possibilities.
Felt himself was mentioned several times over the years as a candidate for
Deep Throat, but he regularly denied that he was the source.
"I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant in 1999. "I would
have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House
crashing down, did he?"
Felt had expressed reservations in the past about revealing his identity,
and about whether his actions were appropriate for an FBI man, his grandson
said.
According to the article, Felt once told his son, Mark Jr., that he did not
believe being Deep Throat "was anything to be proud of. ... You (should) not
leak information to anyone."
His family members thought otherwise, and persuaded him to talk about his
role in the Watergate scandal, saying he deserves to receive accolades
before his death. His daughter, Joan, argued that he could "make enough
money to pay some bills, like the debt I've run up for the children's
education."
"As he recently told my mother, `I guess people used to think Deep Throat
was a criminal, but now they think he's a hero'," Jones said.
Woodward, who had visited with Felt as recently as 1999, refused to confirm
or deny, even to the man's family, that Felt was his source, and wondered
whether Felt was mentally competent to decide whether to go public after all
these years, the magazine reported.
Woodward and Bernstein were the first reporters to link the Nixon White
House and the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in
Washington's Watergate complex.
Nixon, facing almost-certain impeachment for helping to cover up the
break-in, resigned in August 1974. Forty government officials and members of
Nixon's re-election committee were convicted on felony charges.
In 2003, Woodward and Bernstein reached an agreement to keep their Watergate
papers at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, the pair said
documents naming Deep Throat would be kept secure at an undisclosed location
in Washington until the source's death.
Felt was convicted in the 1970s for authorizing illegal break-ins at homes
of people associated with the radical Weather Underground. He was pardoned
by President Reagan in 1981.
Deep throat is also Jeff Gannon's nickname for GWB.
Identity of 'Deep Throat' Source Revealed By SHARON THEIMER, Associated
Press Writer
1 hour, 34 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark
Felt stepped forward Tuesday as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post
source that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Within hours, the paper ratified his claim.
"It's the last secret" of the story, said Ben Bradlee, the paper's top
editor at the time the riveting political drama played out three decades
ago.
It tumbled out in stages during the day - first when a lawyer quoted Felt in
a magazine article as having said he was the source; then when the former
FBI man's family issued a statement hailing him as a "great American hero,"
and finally when the Post posted a story on its Web site confirming him as
the secret leaker of long ago.
"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," Felt, the former No. 2 man at
the FBI, was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair.
He kept his secret even from his family for almost three decades before his
declaration.
Felt, who lives in Santa Rosa, Calif., is said to be in poor mental and
physical health because of a stroke. His family did not immediately make him
available for comment, asking the news media to respect his privacy "in view
of his age and health."
A grandson, Nick Jones, read a statement. "The family believes that my
grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and
beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a
horrible injustice," it said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see
him this way as well."
In a statement issued later, Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein said, "W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably
in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources
and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories
that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate."
The reporters and Bradlee had kept the identity of Deep Throat secret at his
request, saying his name would be revealed upon his death. But then Felt
revealed it himself.
Even the existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for an X-rated movie of the
early 1970s, was kept secret for a time. Woodward and Bernstein revealed
their reporting had been guided by a Nixon administration source in their
best-selling book "All the President's Men."
A hit movie starring Robert Redford as Woodward, Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein
and Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat was made in 1976. In the film, Holbrook's
shadowy, cigarette-smoking character would meet Redford in dark parking
garages and provide clues about the scandal.
The movie portrayed the cloak-and-dagger methods that Woodward and Deep
Throat were said to have employed. When Woodward wanted a meeting, he would
position an empty flowerpot containing a red flag on his apartment balcony.
When Deep Throat wanted to meet, the hands of a clock would appear written
inside Woodward's New York Times.
The identity of the source has sparked endless speculation over the last
three decades. Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig, White House press aide
Diane Sawyer, White House counsel John Dean and speechwriter Pat
Buchanan were among those mentioned as possibilities.
Felt himself was mentioned several times over the years as a candidate for
Deep Throat, but he regularly denied that he was the source.
"I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant in 1999. "I would
have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House
crashing down, did he?"
Felt had expressed reservations in the past about revealing his identity,
and about whether his actions were appropriate for an FBI man, his grandson
said.
According to the article, Felt once told his son, Mark Jr., that he did not
believe being Deep Throat "was anything to be proud of. ... You (should) not
leak information to anyone."
His family members thought otherwise, and persuaded him to talk about his
role in the Watergate scandal, saying he deserves to receive accolades
before his death. His daughter, Joan, argued that he could "make enough
money to pay some bills, like the debt I've run up for the children's
education."
"As he recently told my mother, `I guess people used to think Deep Throat
was a criminal, but now they think he's a hero'," Jones said.
Woodward, who had visited with Felt as recently as 1999, refused to confirm
or deny, even to the man's family, that Felt was his source, and wondered
whether Felt was mentally competent to decide whether to go public after all
these years, the magazine reported.
Woodward and Bernstein were the first reporters to link the Nixon White
House and the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in
Washington's Watergate complex.
Nixon, facing almost-certain impeachment for helping to cover up the
break-in, resigned in August 1974. Forty government officials and members of
Nixon's re-election committee were convicted on felony charges.
In 2003, Woodward and Bernstein reached an agreement to keep their Watergate
papers at the University of Texas at Austin. At the time, the pair said
documents naming Deep Throat would be kept secure at an undisclosed location
in Washington until the source's death.
Felt was convicted in the 1970s for authorizing illegal break-ins at homes
of people associated with the radical Weather Underground. He was pardoned
by President Reagan in 1981.
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