Felt also dismisses speculation that he became Deep Throat because he was angry at being passed over as J. Edgar Hoover's successor and wanted to sabotage the new boss, L. Patrick Gray.
"It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died. It is not true that I was jealous of Gray," he wrote.
L.Patrick Grey was my attorney in an action that I and my Navy cohorts brought against the Congress back in the seventies. We won, btw.