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Silent Coup: The Removal of a President
C-Span ^ | June 25, 1991 | Len Colodny, Robert Getlin, Brian Lamb

Posted on 06/11/2025 2:56:20 PM PDT by Pelham

https://www.c-span.org/program/booknotes/silent-coup-the-removal-of-a-president/145388

"In a controversial new book on the Nixon resignation, Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, the authors said that White House aide John Dean was responsible for the cover-up of the 1973 Watergate break-in, that General Alexander Haig was attempting to unseat President Nixon, and that General Haig was also "Deep Throat." The authors say that their book has been rejected by some critics because it "cuts too close to the bone of what's been accepted for 20 years." Mr. Colodny is a former Maryland politician and Mr. Gettlin was a reporter for Newhouse Newspaper in Washington."


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: brianlamb; colodny; dean; getlin; gettlin; haig; johndean; lencolodny; nixon; removalofapresident; robertgetlin; silentcoup; watergate
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To: Pelham; cowboyusa
Heidi had died in a fall in 1978 so she couldn’t be interviewed.

Just in time to keep her from saying anything that might embarrass G. H. W. Bush's 1980 campaign. .
21 posted on 06/11/2025 10:27:26 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

There was surely a list of prominent people in sports and politics who would have wanted her to remain silent. You can read about them in that Phil Stanford book.


22 posted on 06/12/2025 12:25:55 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham

“At the time when Colodny and Getlin were writing the book his role was still unknown to anyone outside of Woodward and Bernstein.”

That is an interesting comment. IIRC the book (or perhaps it was another book) believed that “Deep Throat” was a compilation of several sources. They (or someone else?) went through the various insider information and the timelines, and nobody on their radar fit all of them. But if Felt wasn’t on their radar....

Below is a website discussing the pros and cons of Mark Felt as Deep Throat. Part of the site has various people’s opinions about the revelation, and the excerpt is from Colodny and Huff. Specifically that it would be odd that Felt would have known about the White House tapes.

A bit off topic - but I have always found it interesting that the missing section of tape was shortly after Nixon said something like “And tell the CIA this investigation will probably bring up the whole Cuban thing. And that Hunt fellow, he knows a lot of stuff.”

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https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKfeltM.htm

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But there are other reasons to doubt that Felt is Deep Throat.

Colodny and Hoff point to the claim in the Woodward/Bernstein book, All the President’s Men, that Deep Throat provided the Post reporters exclusive information about the “deliberate erasures,” as “Throat” told Woodward in November of 1973, on the White House tapes. “There’s no reason to believe that Felt had access to that information because it was closely held in the White House,” says Colodny, “and Felt had left the FBI in April - six months earlier.”

Hoff agrees. “It’s conceivable that as the second in command at the FBI, the deputy director, he could have gotten information from somebody about this,” she said. “But I don’t think he gave them this information. I think it was somebody in the White House. At that point, the White House was so embattled over the tapes and the possible subpoena (of them), there were only 3 or 4 people who had access to those tapes.”

That means, apparently, that either Felt is not Deep Throat or that he had his own Deep Throat.

But if Felt did somehow have access to that information and provided it to Woodward, important questions are raised.

“The guy is deputy director of the FBI,” Colodny says. “Why is he not protecting the tapes? Why is he not arresting the people who are doing this? Why doesn’t he go to (Watergate Judge John) Sirica’s court, which is hearing this? He’s a sworn law enforcement officer. He knows there’s a crime being committed. But instead of doing something about it, he goes in a garage and talks to Woodward.”

Hoff makes the same basic point. “He is the top law enforcement officer in the country because there’s only an acting director (of the FBI) at that point,” says Hoff. “Why didn’t he go to Sirica or a grand jury and blow the story open?”

If Felt was concerned about the hostility between the FBI and President Nixon, Hoff counters, “This is the very story that he could have killed the Nixon Administration with. Why in God’s name would a top law enforcement officer meet in a garage with a rookie reporter and give him this information? It makes no sense.”

Hoff predicts that the story will rebound to the discredit of Woodward. It’s another flashy story, she concedes, “but I think they made a mistake in choosing Felt.”


23 posted on 06/12/2025 12:50:16 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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Dean also has a much longer life span than snakes.

I’m surprised that they haven’t pulled Dean out onto the talk shows this second Trump term. He was very active during Trump’s kangaroo court trial. No doubt so that the older voters would compare Trump to that “crook” Nixon.


24 posted on 06/12/2025 12:55:14 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: Pelham

Don’t know that one. Sounds interesting though. The deep state is older than we thought.


25 posted on 06/12/2025 8:22:35 AM PDT by BHI2025
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To: piasa

Thanks, Silent Coup is an important book that builds on Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda. The sexual blackmail angle is developed more in Robert Merritt’s Watergate Exposed and Phil Stanford’s White House Call Girl. Geoff Shepard has written some important work on Ted Kennedy’s role in manipulating the prosecution. John Newman has argued that James McCord was a KGB mole, a thesis I neither confirm nor deny at this point. Felt was only one source for Woodward’s “Deep Throat” material at best, as Liddy, Haig, and others have contended and McCord admitted, and his leaking activity was well-known to insiders prior to Woodward’s “revelation”, playing a role in how his prosecution over COINTELPRO was handled.


26 posted on 06/12/2025 11:55:54 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: BHI2025

“The deep state is older than we thought.”

People used to speak of “the Permanent government” as early as the 1960s, meaning the Civil Service agencies and Congressional staffers.

But that was different, because those people weren’t organizing themselves into a rival, unelected government. Partly because that would have been impossible to pull off before the advent of instant communication and networking, courtesy of the internet and cellphones.

The Intel community is where the risk of an organized threat to the elected government has always existed. They have been in the business of overthrowing unfriendly regimes since the end of WW2. And if Mike Benz’s suspicions are correct they have turned their Color Revolution expertise on us.


27 posted on 06/12/2025 2:14:26 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: 21twelve

Only Woodward and Bernstein know who or what Deep Throat was, and they aren’t saying.

I suspect that it’s a journalistic fiction, a composite of Haig and Felt and possibly some other source. They combine it all into one invented person because they really don’t want us to know who their sources were.

“And tell the CIA this investigation will probably bring up the whole Cuban thing. And that Hunt fellow, he knows a lot of stuff.”

Get that Phil Sheridan book, “White House Call Girl”. It adds some very persuasive evidence illuminating the CIA role in Watergate and the Ellsberg breakin before it. And the Honey Trap operation that the CIA appears to have been running alongside this.


28 posted on 06/12/2025 2:36:23 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham

I am still proud that my first ever vote was for President Nixon in 1972.


29 posted on 08/13/2025 2:54:04 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Pelham
https://rumble.com/v6xdnfu-how-the-deep-state-took-down-richard-nixon.html

https://warroom.film/watch-how-the-deep-state-took-down-richard-nixon/

30 posted on 08/13/2025 3:47:48 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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