Deep Throat

[Monroe, Dave]

Former FBI official says he was `Deep Throat,' magazine reports

The Associated Press
Published May 31, 2005, 11:15 AM CDT


NEW YORK -- A former FBI official says he was the source called ``Deep
Throat'' 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 Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward' s source, the
magazine said.

``I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat,'' he told lawyer John D.
O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a
press release.

Felt was initially adamant about remaining silent on the subject, thinking
disclosures about his past somehow dishonorable.

``I don't think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of,'' Felt
indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article.
``You (should) not leak information to anyone.''

Felt is a retiree living in Santa Rosa, Calif., with his daughter, Joan, the
magazine said. He could not immediately be reached for comment by The
Associated Press.

The Washington Post had no immediate comment.


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