Ex-FBI Official Claims To Be 'Deep Throat'

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:31 pm

Ex-FBI official says he's 'Deep Throat'
Magazine quotes him as saying he was 'doing his duty'

MSNBC

Updated: 12:01 p.m. ET May 31, 2005W.

Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the "Deep Throat" source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told John D. O'Connor, the author of Vanity Fair's exclusive that appears in its July issue.

Felt, now 91 and living in Santa Rosa, Calif. reportedly gave O'Connor permission to disclose his identity.

"The Felt family cooperated fully, providing old photographs for the story and agreeing to sit for portraits," Vanity Fair stated in a press release.

Felt said he was "only doing his duty" and did not seek to bring down Nixon over the cover-up of a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

Carl Bernstein, who with Bob Woodward broke the story as Washington Post reporters, issued a statement neither denying nor confirming Felt's claim. Bernstein stated he and Woodward would be keeping their pledge to reveal the source only once that person dies.

NBC News commentator Chris Matthews, who wrote a book about Watergate, said he wasn't surprised, adding that Felt "has always been the leading suspect."

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hailskins666 · Post by **hailskins666** » Tue May 31, 2005 12:48 pm

if i had that "nickname", i don't think i'd ever tell anyone. :shock:

skinsfan1 · Post by **skinsfan1** » Tue May 31, 2005 1:31 pm

hailskins666 wrote:if i had that "nickname", i don't think i'd ever tell anyone.

got that right....

Smithian · Post by **Smithian** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:01 pm

I thought this would something else.

Gibbs' Hog · Post by **Gibbs' Hog** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:52 pm

I thought "deep throat" was Monica Lewinsky's code name :lol:

Redskin in Canada · Post by **Redskin in Canada** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:56 pm

For the younger crowd this is a meaningless joke. For some of us this is one of the most astonishing political revelations of all time.

He had motive. The most famous motive of all: revenge against Nixon for bye-passing him as head of the FBI. Astonishing!

I never thought I would live to know the truth. If I was his grandson, I would change my name and move to another continent!

hailskins666 · Post by **hailskins666** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:19 am

Redskin in Canada wrote:For the younger crowd this is a meaningless joke. For some of us this is one of the most astonishing political revelations of all time.

He had motive. The most famous motive of all: revenge against Nixon for bye-passing him as head of the FBI. Astonishing!

I never thought I would live to know the truth. If I was his grandson, I would change my name and move to another continent!

no doubt, how'd you like to be called 'deepthroat III'? ROTFALMAO

tazlah · Post by **tazlah** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:23 am

'deepthroat III' ... Wasn't that a movie?

Redskin in Canada · Post by **Redskin in Canada** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:30 am

tazlah wrote:'deepthroat III' ... Wasn't that a movie?

I am not touching this one. :lol:

But seriously though, many lives of VERY important people with LOOONG memories were destroyed forever.

I would be careful, very careful. Delighted not to be related to or be even an acquaintance of him or his family at all.