Mark Felt who was 2nd in charge of the FBI back then comes forward to admit he was deep throat. Follow the money he said. Seems thats still true today.
Deep Throat
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Ex-FBI Official Says He Was 'Deep Throat'
By GREG SANDOVAL
Associated Press Writer
SANTA ROSA, Calif. ? A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.
W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His claim was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true.
W. Mark Felt appears on CBS' 'Face The Nation' in Washington Sunday Aug.30, 1976. The former FBI official claims he was 'Deep Throat,' the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair magazine reported Tuesday, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo)
"The family believes 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," a family statement read by grandson Nick Jones said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well."
Felt, who lives with his daughter Joan in Santa Rosa and is in declining health, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.
"My grandfather is pleased he is being honored for his role as Deep Throat with his friend Bob Woodward," Jones said.
"As he recently told my mother, `I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he was a hero.'"
The Washington Post had no immediate comment on the report.
The existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for a popular porn movie of the early 1970s, was revealed in Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling book "All the President's Men." In the hit movie based on the book, Deep Throat was played by Hal Holbrook.
But his identity of the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency remained a mystery.
Among those named over the years as Deep Throat were 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. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, White House aide Steven Bull, speechwriters Ray Price and Pat Buchanan, and John Dean, the White House counsel who warned Nixon of "a cancer growing on the presidency," also were considered candidates.
And some theorized Deep Throat wasn't a single source at all but a composite figure.
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?"
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.
MSNBC quoted Bernstein as saying Tuesday that he and Woodward would stick to their pledge not to say anything until Deep Throat dies.
In the family statement, Jones said his grandfather believes "the men and women of the FBI who have put their lives at risk for more than 50 years to keep this country safe deserve recognition more than he."
"On behalf of the Felt family we hope you see him as worthy of honor and respect as we do," Jones said.
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By GREG SANDOVAL
Associated Press Writer
SANTA ROSA, Calif. ? A former FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.
W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His claim was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true.
W. Mark Felt appears on CBS' 'Face The Nation' in Washington Sunday Aug.30, 1976. The former FBI official claims he was 'Deep Throat,' the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair magazine reported Tuesday, May 31, 2005. (AP Photo)
"The family believes 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," a family statement read by grandson Nick Jones said. "We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well."
Felt, who lives with his daughter Joan in Santa Rosa and is in declining health, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.
"My grandfather is pleased he is being honored for his role as Deep Throat with his friend Bob Woodward," Jones said.
"As he recently told my mother, `I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he was a hero.'"
The Washington Post had no immediate comment on the report.
The existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for a popular porn movie of the early 1970s, was revealed in Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling book "All the President's Men." In the hit movie based on the book, Deep Throat was played by Hal Holbrook.
But his identity of the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency remained a mystery.
Among those named over the years as Deep Throat were 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. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's press secretary, White House aide Steven Bull, speechwriters Ray Price and Pat Buchanan, and John Dean, the White House counsel who warned Nixon of "a cancer growing on the presidency," also were considered candidates.
And some theorized Deep Throat wasn't a single source at all but a composite figure.
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?"
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.
MSNBC quoted Bernstein as saying Tuesday that he and Woodward would stick to their pledge not to say anything until Deep Throat dies.
In the family statement, Jones said his grandfather believes "the men and women of the FBI who have put their lives at risk for more than 50 years to keep this country safe deserve recognition more than he."
"On behalf of the Felt family we hope you see him as worthy of honor and respect as we do," Jones said.
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Anyone who cared knew it was this guy MANY years ago. Thus, the general lack of hoopla in the press.
I really wanted to know that for a long time. But now that I know, if its true, I don't seem to care much.
I guess because I don't recognize who this guy is. Head of FBI pretty much explains it all though.
I guess because I don't recognize who this guy is. Head of FBI pretty much explains it all though.
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at 91 not much time left.
So he told this so he and his family could profit from it before he passes.
djv - didnt we talk about this one time before.
follow the money he says.... yep its all about the money.
It makes sense the FBI was under great pressure from the Nixon Gang. He was fighting back the only way he could. Many of you here are to young to know how corrupt that administration was. Fear for there lives, many did.
thought this time line of events leading up to Nixon's resignation was interesting --all over break in of Dem headquarters--must have had some hard evidence as apparently--perjury or I don't recall wouldn't suffice or was out of the question 
Fast Facts: Watergate Scandal
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
It started as an investigation into the break-in of a hotel, residential and office complex in Washington, D.C. But it ended with the only resignation of a U.S. president. Following are details about Watergate:
BASICS
? The Watergate break-in was in June 1972.
? The cover-up and story ultimately led President Nixon to resign in August 1974.
? Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravelled the scandal.
? A main source for the reporters was called Deep Throat.
TIMELINE
? November 1968: Richard Nixon elected president.
? June 17, 1972: Five men arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex. One of the men says he used to work for the CIA.
? August 1972: The Washington Post reports a $25,000 check apparently meant for the Nixon campaign ended up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.
? October 1972: The Post reports that the FBI believes the Watergate break-in was part of a political sabotage effort by the Nixon campaign.
? November 1972: Nixon is reelected in a huge landslide.
? January 1973: Two Nixon aides (G. Gordon Liddy, James McCord) are convicted in Watergate burglary.
? April 1973: White House counsel John Dean is fired, the attorney general and two top White House staffers resign over the scandal.
? July 1973: Former White House secretary tells Congress that Nixon taped all conversations in his office since 1971. Nixon reportedly orders tapes disconnected.
? November 17, 1973: Nixon declares his innocence saying "I am not a crook."
? December 1973: 18-1/2 minute gap found in one White House tape.
? July 1974: Supreme Court orders White House to hand over 64 tapes of conversations. House passes first of three articles of impeachment.
? August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon announces resignation.
Fast Facts: Watergate Scandal
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
It started as an investigation into the break-in of a hotel, residential and office complex in Washington, D.C. But it ended with the only resignation of a U.S. president. Following are details about Watergate:
BASICS
? The Watergate break-in was in June 1972.
? The cover-up and story ultimately led President Nixon to resign in August 1974.
? Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravelled the scandal.
? A main source for the reporters was called Deep Throat.
TIMELINE
? November 1968: Richard Nixon elected president.
? June 17, 1972: Five men arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex. One of the men says he used to work for the CIA.
? August 1972: The Washington Post reports a $25,000 check apparently meant for the Nixon campaign ended up in the bank account of a Watergate burglar.
? October 1972: The Post reports that the FBI believes the Watergate break-in was part of a political sabotage effort by the Nixon campaign.
? November 1972: Nixon is reelected in a huge landslide.
? January 1973: Two Nixon aides (G. Gordon Liddy, James McCord) are convicted in Watergate burglary.
? April 1973: White House counsel John Dean is fired, the attorney general and two top White House staffers resign over the scandal.
? July 1973: Former White House secretary tells Congress that Nixon taped all conversations in his office since 1971. Nixon reportedly orders tapes disconnected.
? November 17, 1973: Nixon declares his innocence saying "I am not a crook."
? December 1973: 18-1/2 minute gap found in one White House tape.
? July 1974: Supreme Court orders White House to hand over 64 tapes of conversations. House passes first of three articles of impeachment.
? August 8, 1974: Richard Nixon announces resignation.
I would like to know who was the person closer to Nixon that gave Felt some of the info. Being the second guy at the FBI and then left and retired. Just could not know en enough to bring Nixon down. One of his close buds did that. And that we may never find out. But you talk about a play for total power and dictatorship. He had to go.
