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Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt dies

Published: 18/12/2008 05:00

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W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who became known as “Deep Throat,” — the nickname for the anonymous source who tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon’s presidency — has died. He was 95.

Former FBI official W. Mark Felt waves to reporters in Santa Rosa, California. An article written in Vanity Fair magazine reveals that Felt was ’Deep Throat’, the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up to the Washington Post.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Felt died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Santa Rosa, California, according to his daughter, Joan Felt.

Felt, a former associate director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, secretly guided Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they pursued stories stemming from the 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party National Committee headquarters.

President Nixon ultimately resigned in 1974 as a consequence of the White House role in the scandal and in the cover-up that followed.

Felt insisted on remaining completely anonymous, or on “deep background.” A Washington Post editor dubbed him “Deep Throat,” a bit of wordplay based on the title of a pornographic movie of the time.

The identity of Felt remained a secret until May 2005, when Woodward and Bernstein confirmed revelations published in an article in the July issue of Vanity Fair.

“I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,” Felt told the Vanity Fair for article, creating a whirlwind of media attention.

As early as October 1972, Nixon himself voiced suspicion that Felt may be leaking information to the press and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst had pressured FBI Acting Director L. Patrick Gray to fire his deputy. Felt denied his role repeatedly and stayed at the FBI until his retirement in June 1973.

VietNamNet/Xinhuanet

Update from: http://english.vietnamnet.vn//international/2008/12/819458/

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