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| | Deep Throat, Watergate, Woodward, Bernstein |
 | | The traceable information that aroused the interest of the Watergate prosecutors concerned data from a few FBI 302 files that sent Woodward and Bernstein after Donald Segretti, which turned out to be, if not a wild goose chase, irrelevant to the Watergate crime. |
 | | It is also of interest that Woodward never mentioned Deep Throat in any of the newspaper stories he wrote in the Washington Post between 1972 and 1974. |
 | | In fact, Deep Throat did not exist in the early versions of the book, according to Woodward's book agent, David Obst, who explains: "In the original draft of their book, Deep Throat was not mentioned. |
| www.edwardjayepstein.com /nether_fictoid5.htm (737 words) |
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