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Next month sees the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, and a fresh flurry of books and articles “unmasking” the man referred to by cognoscenti simply as “Throat”. The former White House counsel John Dean, who testified against Nixon, claims he will identify him on the Internet on June 17. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Gaines is offering A Finder's Guide to Deep Throat, the fruit of two years’ study by a team of journalism students which he compares to the Warren Report. Deep Throat, Gaines insists, is “a middle-level White House official. It’s not anybody a lot of people...

Excerpt: . . . a 19-year-old from Port Chester, N.Y., named Chase Culeman-Beckman claims to have been told by Carl Bernstein's son Jacob that Deep Throat was ... Mark Felt. Culeman-Beckman says that 11 years ago he attended Hampton Day School Camp in Bridgehampton, Long Island with Carl Bernstein's sons, Jacob and Max, and that Jacob was the one who told him. According to Daley, Culeman-Beckman "said the young Bernstein told him the information came straight from his dad," who of course is one of the three people known to be party to the secret. (The other two are Bob...