‘Deep Throat’ dies, aged 95
p2pnet news view | Movies:- Ex-FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt sr, the man who spilled the beans on the impeached US president Richard Nixon and later became anonymously famous as Deep Throat in a best-sellling book and Hollywood movie, has died at the age of 95.
“As the second-highest official in the FBI under longtime director J. Edgar Hoover and interim director L. Patrick Gray, Felt detested the Nixon administration’s attempt to subvert the bureau’s investigation into the complex of crimes and coverups known as the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon,” says the Washington Post, going on:
“He secretly guided Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward as he and his colleague Carl Bernstein pursued the story of the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate office buildings and later revelations of the Nixon administration’s campaign of spying and sabotage against its perceived political enemies.”
A Post editor dubbed him Deep Throat, “a bit of wordplay based on the title of a pornographic movie of the time,” says the story.
“The source’s existence, but not his identity, became known in Woodward and Bernstein’s 1974 book, “All the President’s Men,” and in the subsequent movie version, in which actor Hal Holbrook played the charismatic but shadowy source.”
In 2005 Felt’s family revealed his identity in an article for Vanity Fair magazine, says the story, adding:
“Woodward confirmed the revelation, and secret was finally out.”
Washington Post – ‘Deep Throat’ Mark Felt Dies at 95, December 19, 2008
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December 20th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Damn I thought from the title you were referring to a geriatric pr0n star