College student's sleuthing backs up Haldeman, Dean's belief on "Deep Throat"

At the beginning of April, the Watergate archival papers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein--75 boxes of the notes, clippings and other materials they assembled in their reporting of the Watergate scandal--were sold to the University of Texas library for $5 million.

It was a historic sum of money for a collection of this kind. But it was a historic collection: These resources had led to the only resignation by an American president--Richard Nixon.

Not surprisingly, there were a few conditions attached to the sale protecting the identity of confidential sources they had used. Archival papers often have time limits established by their donors for accessing what they consider ''sensitive'' issues. So do documents released by the federal government to the National Archives.

So despite the high price paid for the Watergate papers, the question of the identity of Nixon White House insider ''Deep Throat,'' Woodward's most valuable source, was not likely to be answered by any research done in the archives at the University of Texas.

Woodward had promised Deep Throat that his name would not be revealed until his death, and he has kept his word. He had already endured more than 30 years of charges that there was no such individual or that Deep Throat was really a composite character. It looked like the world might just have to wait until Woodward released the name.

A thousand miles away at the University of Illinois, a former reporter with two Pulitzers of his own, now Knight Professor of Journalism Bill Gaines, was just concluding a project. He had challenged his students to a fascinating exercise in investigative journalism: Find out the identity of Deep Throat, the man Gaines termed ''the most elusive, anonymous news source in history.''

After 30 years of speculation by Watergate experts and journalists, Gaines had sent a ''children's crusade'' of students in pursuit of the great white whale of journalism.....(SNIP)

<< I always thought it would be a good thing if someone would grab John Dean and pinch his snotty little head off. >>

John Dean always was and still is a bloody liar. Dean was President Nixon's administration's link with the execrable Bill Moyers who, as the abjectly-corrupt Lyndon B Johnson's most abjectly-corrupt sychophant/pimp, ran a DNC Dirty Tricks operation that made the escapades of President Nixon's self-appointed "helpers" seem like Boy Scout outings -- and Barney Fwank's Basement Call-Boy operation ["Thumwun took me for a thucker"] seem moral.

That Dean still wastes America's air is a shame.

But that Moyers Not Only stays out of prison But Also continues to wax fat on the public tit is an American Tragedy!

The Illinois students assembled clues that increasingly pointed to Fielding and eliminated other candidates. Fielding and Deep Throat smoked and drank Scotch. Deep Throat gave quotes to Woodward from John Ehrlichman and others he had overheard in connection with Dean and Fielding's cleaning out Howard Hunt's safe, that later appeared in testimony. Deep Throat told Woodward about the payments to the Watergate burglars, which Woodward and Bernstein had confirmed by the Committee to Re-elect the President's bookkeeper. Fielding had already seen the report summarizing the bookkeeper's detailed discussion with the FBI. The students came up with 12 clues... Haldeman's case for Fielding was all the stronger for his looking at ''Not what he told Woodward that was accurate, but what he told Woodward that was wrong and almost every White House staffer knew was wrong. This could only happen if Deep Throat had access to much information but was deliberately 'kept out of things,' as Dean had said. And the person Dean had personally kept out of things was his assistant Fielding.

However, that only works, If it was definitely one guy.

BUT...Consider. A young Dick Cheney (three pack a day habit) worked for Don Rumsfeld, first at OEO, then over to the WH.

Also at OEO, another young man worked for Rummy, but was fired, when Nixon turned his eye on him. That mans name...Terry Lenzner...Rmemeber him ? IGI...

In Rumsfelds first campaign for Congress, a man in Chicago working on his MBA worked for Rumsfeld. That Mans name...Jeb Stuart Magruder.

Lenzners Next job after his forced firing...Senate Watergate Committee. At the same time, Magruder was working on CREEP, and assistant to ........ta da....H.R. Haldeman.

Rummy himself was in the Oval Office enough to actually appear on some of the tapes....

The last 'sourced' column by W&B posts on Jan 30, right after Rumsfeld would be leaving to become Ambassador To NATO.(Supposedly he lobbied for the Post) he leaves country first week of February.

coincedentally, during his congressional stint, Rummy had helped Gerald Ford defeat Charles Halleck for Minority Leader...

Supposing.........

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