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W. Mark Felt is Deep Throat
ABC News | 5/31/1955 | ABC News

Posted on 05/31/2005 8:33:03 AM PDT by CaptainK

Just in on ABC News. He and his family admit it through his lawyer. Will be in upcoming Vanity Fair.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 31may2005; bernstein; bernwood; dean; deepthroat; fbi; felt; feltgate; insiderinfo; markfelt; mediabias; nixon; traitor; vanityfair; watergate; wmarkfelt; woodstein; woodward; yawn
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To: Howlin

I'm listening to it on ABC


21 posted on 05/31/2005 8:38:58 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: jaydubya2

John Dean said it a few months back.


22 posted on 05/31/2005 8:39:02 AM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: Howlin

Was surfing and saw this on ABC. My speakers aren't working on the computer!

Thanks for the ping.

I did see on screen that he told his family in 2002 that he was "Deep Throat".


23 posted on 05/31/2005 8:39:22 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: dogbyte12

Thank you!


24 posted on 05/31/2005 8:39:43 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: CaptainK
Whoa !!

Only took 31 years !!


BUMP

25 posted on 05/31/2005 8:39:45 AM PDT by tm22721
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To: CaptainK

26 posted on 05/31/2005 8:39:51 AM PDT by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: CaptainK

I think I was Deep Throat- what were we talking about?


27 posted on 05/31/2005 8:40:31 AM PDT by steve8714
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To: rdb3
Deep Throat was the secret and shadowy informant who gave Woodward and Bernstein info on the Nixon White House which helped bring about Watergate. They were sworn to secrecy until he/she dies. Some people speculated it was Alexander Haig, among others.
28 posted on 05/31/2005 8:40:32 AM PDT by unbalanced but fair
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To: Rodney King
Congratulations, you win the kewpie doll!.......


29 posted on 05/31/2005 8:40:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Goooooooogle your own name.............)
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To: TheBattman
Exactly how many folks are going to come out of the woodwork and make the same claim?

I'm deep throat, too!

30 posted on 05/31/2005 8:40:55 AM PDT by KOZ.
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To: 68 grunt
From your link:

Generally acknowledged to be the three leading candidates are W. Mark Felt, Fred Fielding, and William H. Rehnquist.

W. Mark Felt was the third highest official in the FBI at the time of Watergate. James Mann, who had worked at the Post at the time of Watergate and was close to the investigation, brought a great deal of evidence together in a 1992 article in Atlantic Monthly that fingered Felt and convinced many. He argued that the information Deep Throat gave Woodward could only have come from FBI files. Felt was also embittered at having been passed over for the Director General position and the FBI in general was hostile to the Nixon administration. In previous unrelated articles Woodward had made clear he had a highly placed source at the FBI and there is some evidence he was friends with Felt. Felt was Richard Nixon's personal candidate as Deep Throat. Bernstein's son blurted to others that Felt was Deep Throat many years ago. Bernstein's wife at that time, Nora Ephron, tried to explain it away, saying that their son overheard her "speculations." Woodward has kept in close touch with Felt over the years, even showing up unexpected at his house in 1999, after Felt's dementia began. Some suspected at that time that Woodward might be asking Felt if he could reveal him to be Deep Throat, though Felt, when asked directly by others, has consistently denied being Deep Throat.

It seems that (a) Felt lied à lá Klein of Primary Colors (b) he may have committed real crimes via the FBI files.

31 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:04 AM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AD fan club: "Very well stated, AD." -- Diana in Wisconsin; "LOL!!!" -- MikeinIraq)
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To: cyncooper

ABC was in the middle of the President's presser when they turned away and started talking about this

Charlie says it was mentioned in an article

Though I can't find the article online


32 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:21 AM PDT by Mo1 (Hey GOP ---- Not one Dime till Republicans grow a Spine !!)
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To: RexBeach
"Who the heck is this guy? Never heard of him."

Ditto.
33 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:26 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: steve8714

You better call ABC and tell them they are mistaken.


34 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:29 AM PDT by CaptainK
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To: CaptainK
"ABC is saying at the age of 91. he doesn't remember it but the family is saying they know it to be so."

It's not something that you would forget. That's like a veteran forgetting that there was a war.

My money is still on Rehnquist.

35 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:41 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: CaptainK

http://www.washingtonian.com/people/deepthroat.html


36 posted on 05/31/2005 8:41:53 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: TheBattman
Exactly how many folks are going to come out of the woodwork and make the same claim?

I'm Spartacus!

37 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:00 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: CaptainK

I thought Linda Lovelace was Deep Throat.


38 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:08 AM PDT by JoeGar
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To: Southack

I think this is it. His family has probably known for a long time, and now at 91 he is probably going senile.

This absolutely makes sense.


39 posted on 05/31/2005 8:42:50 AM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: Howlin

I hope this story gets fleshed out over the coming weeks... It's been one of the long interesting mysteries in this country.


40 posted on 05/31/2005 8:43:09 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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