Deep Throat is Dead
The once No. 2 official at the FBI that helped bring down the presidency of Richard M. Nixon died at 95, the New York Times reports.
W. Mark Felt, the most anonymous source in American history, revealed his true identity in a 2005 Vanity Fair article.
Felt, or better known as ‘Deep Throat,’ secretly supplied Bob Woodward of the Washington Post crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the 1970s. As a secret informant, he kept the story fresh in the news, and fought Nixon’s efforts to obstruct the FBI’s evidence of the break-in.
For 36 years, Bob Woodward and his partner on the story, Carl Bernstein, kept the secret.