Deep Throat Reportedly Identified...

by TresHappy 9 Replies latest social current

  • TresHappy
    TresHappy

    It's W. Mark Felt, former high level FBI Agent...

    A former FBI official says he was the source called "Deep Throat" who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.

    W. Mark Felt, 91, who was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

    "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told lawyer John D. O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a press release.

    Felt was initially adamant about remaining silent on the subject, thinking disclosures about his past somehow dishonorable.

    "I don't think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of," Felt indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article. "You (should) not leak information to anyone."

    Felt is a retiree living in Santa Rosa, Calif., with his daughter, Joan, the magazine said. He could not immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press.

    The Washington Post had no immediate comment.

    Felt is one of a number of people who have been named over the years as the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency. Others include Assistant Attorney General Henry Peterson, deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding, and even ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, who then worked in the White House press office.

    In 1999, Felt denied he was the man.

    "I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant. "I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?"

  • hillbilly
    hillbilly

    If he is... and if he admits it, I am not suprised. At 91 what could happen to him..a purge? A lot of folks knew Nixon and co were doing bad things.... As folks age the real story about most cloak and dagger matters eventually comes to light.

    ~Hill

  • minimus
    minimus

    I read of this man a few months back. I knew it wasn't Harry Reems.

  • Dismembered
    Dismembered

    I thought deep throat was a movie

    Dismembered

    "Go ahead....make my day"

  • minimus
    minimus

    Now Dismembered, open up wide...Hmmm. What do we have here?

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    I am impressed with the integrity of Bernstein and Woodward who wil lstill not confirm until the person is dead

  • TresHappy
    TresHappy

    Here's a photo of him....

    story.mark.felt.cnn.jpg

  • TresHappy
    TresHappy

    Bob Woodward has confirmed the identity of Deep Throat...so now we know (or do we care?)

  • minimus
    minimus

    Tres, I didn't know deep throat was black.

  • Junction-Guy
    Junction-Guy

    No Joke, My mom told me tonight that she had read a book about deepthroat and that somewhere in the book it mentioned something about the deep throat guy supposedly is or was a JW. This floored me when mom told me that and now Im gonna do some more research into this.

    Dave

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