Deep Throat Revealed
I heard this one as it broke on the radio, but I’ve been away from my computer until now. The person known as “Deep Throat,” the anonymous source for Woodward and Bernstein’s series of articles that brought the Watergate scandal to light has come forward and identified himself. “Deep Throat” is W. Mark Felt, the number 2 guy in the FBI at the time. Woodward and Bernstein had pledged to keep their source’s identify a secret until his death, but have confirmed his identity, now that he has stepped forward. Felt is 91 years old and lives in Santa Rosa. In 1999, he denied being “Deep Throat,” and says that even his family didn’t know about his secret identity until 2002. And contrary to what Rush Limbaugh said today, it is a reference to the famous pornographic film of the day.
Wikipedia is all over it, with a bunch of interesting information.
