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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Deep Throat Revealed?

From the Associated Press:

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, 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 Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

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?"

UPDATE:

It has been pointed out by long-time reader, Derek Blakeslee, that W. Mark Felt has retired and is now residing in none other than Santa Rosa, CA. That flew under my radar the first time I read the article. Good sleuthing, Mr. Blakeslee.

UPDATE 2:

Turns our Mr. Felt may have a vendetta out against Nixon for passing him over as Director of the FBI shortly before Watergate broke-out:

Wounded that he was passed over for the top job, furious at Nixon's choice of an outsider, Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III, as acting FBI director, and determined that the White House not be allowed to steer and stall the bureau's Watergate investigation, Mark Felt slipped into the role that would forever alter his life.

Honor for your country only goes so far. The fall of a presidency all came down to who got picked first in kickball.

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