Posted on 04/24/2006 2:52:14 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
'Deep Throat' On Larry King Show on Tuesday, Pushing New Book
By E&P Staff
Published: April 24, 2006 3:05 PM ET
NEW YORK W. Mark Felt, unmasked as fabled Watergate source "Deep Throat" last year, is scheduled to appear on Larry King's CNN interview show on Tuesday. He has a new book to promote, but at 92, and suffering from dementia, the high-profile interview is a bit of a surprise.
CNN is promoting the appearance this way: "His secrets brought down a president. The man known as 'Deep Throat' gives an interview 30 years in the making. Tune in at 9 p.m. ET."
Felt claims in the new book that he always hated the fake name and resents the fact that reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein mentioned anything about him in their "All the President's Men" classic.
He also discloses that he had kept from his family until recently the fact that his wife of 46 years did not die from a heart attack but instead committed sucide in 1984 with his service revolver, because of the strain from his legal troubles and FBI duties.
This is all according to an account of the book's details by Lynne Duke in Saturday's Washington Post.
The book, "A G-Man's Life: The FBI, 'Deep Throat' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington," is co-authored by John O'Connor, the lawyer whose Vanity Fair article last year revealed Felt as Deep Throat. Felt, 92, who suffers from dementia, has just been hospitalized with a fever.
"Mark has never seen himself as a chatterbox who gave up secrets,"O'Connor declares in the introduction, according to Duke. "If this book does nothing else, let it destroy that caricature. Deep Throat was a journalistic joke; the name never described Mark Felt."
He writes that after Woodward revealed that he had a senior source in the executive branch, thereby breaking his agreement with Felt, and identified him as Deep Throat, "the retired FBI man was furious -- slamming down the phone when Woodward called for his reaction" to the 1974 book.
Woodward, in his own Deep Thoat book last year, said he felt he had "leeway" to use Felt as a character in the book.
Felt has said that he did not really want to write this book but his family convinced him he should do it for the money. It is hard to say how much he participated. It said to be based on his 1979 memoir, "The FBI Pyramid From the Inside," as well as FBI memos, a manuscript he prepared in the 1980s with his son, and interviews conducted by his family.
According to Duke, "Though Felt portrays the strain his wife suffered as an FBI wife, he ultimately blamed the government, O'Connor writes, 'charging it with killing his wife.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)
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I always thought of Linda Lovelace whenever I heard of Watergate's Deep Throat.
Now that he has been revealed, I see that my initial impression was correct. ;-)
Larry King is still on the air? This may be the only guest in history of the show older than Larry
Who? Monica?
Hey this should be some show. Two guys with dementia, King and Deep Throat.bwahahahahaha!So will Deep Throat be wearingn "felt" suspenders?
Who's the dementia victim?
King or Felt?
According to Duke, "Though Felt portrays the strain his wife suffered as an FBI wife, he ultimately blamed the government, O'Connor writes, 'charging it with killing his wife.'"
Is there any example where this traitor told the truth? Maybe the strain of knowing she was married to an evil liar who used his public office to illegally bring down a president, caused her to commit suicide? Maybe she knew too much and was a victim of Arkancide.
I don't know if Linda Lovelace ever did her dirty work for money; this guy did and in the process, enabled the liberals to get control of Congress, kick out Nixon and bring about a Red takeover of Vietnam that resulted in over 100,000 deaths and a Khmer Rouge takover of Cambodia where a couple of million or so were killed. Just like the enablers of Bolshevik Russia (Walter Duranty and his ilk), no conscience and easily bought by the promise of a few goodies. I hope Mr. Felt enjoys his dirty, ill-gotten money at the age of 93; I doubt even Linda Lovelace would have him.
"He has a new book to promote, but at 92, and suffering from dementia, the high-profile interview is a bit of a surprise."
I'm confused, is he talking about Felt or King? ;)
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