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  Deep Throat (Watergate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deep Throat is the pseudonym that was given to a secret source who leaked information about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in the Watergate first break-in and subsequent events that came to be known as the Watergate scandal.
The identity of "Deep Throat" was one of the biggest mysteries of American politics and journalism in recent times, and for more than 30 years, the source of much public curiosity.
Dean had been one of the most dedicated hunters of "Deep Throat." Both he and Leonard Garment dismissed Fielding as a possibility, reporting that he had been cleared by Woodward in 1980 when Fielding was applying for an important position in the Ronald Reagan administration.
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 Deep Throat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deep throat (sexual act), a sexual act, a type of fellatio depicted in the movie.
Deep Throat (Watergate), the name given to the source in the Washington Post investigation of the Watergate scandal, revealed on May 31, 2005 to be former FBI associate director W.
Deep Throat has since been used as a generic term or pseudonym for a secret inside informer or whistleblower:
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 washingtonpost.com — Watergate, Deep Throat, Woodward, Bernstein
A documentary entitled "Watergate: The Secret Story," co-produced in 1992 by CBS News and The Washington Post, calls Gray the prime suspect, saying that he not only fits Woodward and Bernstein's Deep Throat description, but also was the only one of the possible suspects who could have met with Woodward on the pertinent dates.
Some Deep Throat theorists have guessed that Deep Throat was an FBI or White House official, but it is possible that a CIA official would have had access to the same information.
Riebling counts Colby as a Deep Throat possibility because one of his given roles while working for Helms at the CIA was to protect the agency's image and thus to prevent it from being tarnished by the Nixon administration's troubles.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/onpolitics/watergate/deepthroat.html   (1105 words)

  
 Watergate’s Deep Throat—a Systems Thinker
Deep Throat may be even more important in 2004 than he was in l974.
Deep Throat understood, when no one else did, that a two-bit burglary and many other unconnected events and so-called “dirty tricks” were, in fact, the work of top administration officials, and he believed their cover-up was undermining the U.S. government and the Constitution.
Deep Throat was not a conventional journalistic source, according to former Nixon White House counsel.
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 Deep Throat: Watergate
However, by October, 1973, Deep Throat had become very worried that he would be identified as Woodward's main source and insisted that they had their meetings at about 2:00 am.
Riebling goes on to argue that this indicates that Deep Throat was a senior official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
When Woodward needed to ask "Deep Throat" something, he was to put a flower pot with a red flag in it on his sixth floor balcony, which, we are supposed to believe, this high level source checked daily.
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 FindLaw's Writ - Dean: What If Deep Throat - Woodward's Watergate Source - Was A Lawyer?
Deep Throat was a true profile in courage during Watergate.
Moreover, if Deep Throat had overheard his father talking about privileged matters without his father's knowledge, his passing on the information would not, of course, have been a breach by his father, who would not have known of the leak.
Or, even if Deep Throat's father had passed on the information, he might have been taking advantage of the crime-fraud exception to the privilege - acting, that is, to prevent an ongoing criminal cover-up.
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 Amazon.com: The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat: Books: Bob Woodward   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
What's clear is that Deep Throat laid the template for Woodward's career; his later reporting on cloistered institutions-the Supreme Court, the CIA, the Fed, various administrations-relied on highly-place, often unnamed insiders to unveil their secrets.
The Watergate scandal was a turning point in the short history of America and one name that was synonymous with this landmark was Deep Throat, the ultra-mysterious informant that lit the way and guided the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward through his quest to get to the bottom of the scandal.
Woodward recalls his first meeting with Deep Throat in the White House which, as history often ridiculously illustrates, proved to be one of those little and trivial events that lead to consequences of history-changing proportion.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743287150?v=glance   (4024 words)

  
 American Journalism Review
But before Watergate, Deep Throat was known not as a mysterious news source who provided sensitive leaks on "deep background," but as a pornographic movie starring Linda Lovelace.
The journalistic Deep Throat, of course, was Watergate's legendary whistleblower — portrayed by actor Hal Holbrook in "All the President's Men" — who skulked around parking garages in the middle of the night helping Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward investigate the Nixon White House.
Unlike most other senior-level Throat suspects, who already had their own favorite and equally senior journalistic contacts, Fielding was about the same age as Woodward and perhaps more likely to have come into contact with the young reporter.
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 Watergate's Deep Throat Revealed - The Cellar
The reporters and Bradlee had kept the identity of Deep Throat secret at his request, saying his name would be revealed upon his death.
Felt himself was mentioned several times over the years as a candidate for Deep Throat, but he regularly denied that he was the source.
It was during the height of the Watergate scandel.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Watergate's Deep Throat revealed
Deep Throat helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate affair.
G Gordon Liddy, who was jailed for four and a half years for his role in the Watergate break-in, said Mr Felt "violated the ethics of the law enforcement profession".
The Watergate scandal concerned a break-in at the offices of the rival Democratic party in the Watergate building in Washington in 1972.
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 Keep Deep Throat in Watergate parable | csmonitor.com
I knew Deep Throat because I understood the purpose he served in that ancient drama called Watergate.
The role Deep Throat played in the Watergate drama had more to do with the parable than it did with the timeline and history of events.
Watergate, now shrouded in the mists of time, is such an affair.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0606/p09s01-coop.html   (828 words)

  
 Deep Throat | Watergate | Richard Nixon | Leonard Garment
He was thus in the middle of what is now commonly referred to as "Watergate" and for some lunatic reason, years after the fact, has become obsessed with the identity of one Deep Throat, the man who essentially served as the spy within the Nixon government to help it fall apart.
Linda Lovelace was the star in a blue movie of the same title, famous for her ability to accomplish penetrating acts of laryngectomy to satisfy her needy clients.
For those who had lived through the crisis of Watergate, the opportunity to revisit the scene of so much political excitement and human mystery was irresistible.
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 Watergate's Deep Throat is revealed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Yesterday morning, sparked by a story two years in the making at the Vanity Fair magazine, W. Mark Felt, a number two man at the FBI during the 70s Watergate scandal was revealed as the legendary Deep Throat.
I even thought Woodward and Bernstein were pulling our legs because the consensus always has been that Deep Throat did not exist.
Deep Throat's identify has also vindicated the Post -- big time -- especially the use of anonymous sources.
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 JS Online:Watergate's Deep Throat revealed
Deep Throat guided Woodward via secret meetings, as the reporters worked on the story.
Woodward, Bernstein and Bradlee had kept the identity of Deep Throat secret at the source's request, saying his name would be revealed upon his death.
Felt was mentioned several times over the years as a candidate for Deep Throat, but he regularly denied he was the source.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=330276&format=print   (1332 words)

  
 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.
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 Watergate's 'Deep Throat' Revealed? - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
Others felt that 'Deep Throat' was more than one person and that the two 'Washington Post' reporters made it seem like one informant to protect their sources.
The name 'Deep Throat' comes from the famous porn film of the same name that swept the country in the early 70s.
Regardless of his real identity, one thing is certain: 'Deep Throat' played a vital role in unraveling the Watergate scandal and Americans owe him a debt of gratitude for it.
www.elitestv.com /pub/2005/May/EEN429ca40670795.html   (325 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Understanding the Impact of the Deep Throat-Watergate Mystery -- June 1, 2005
It fed into what already existed -- a deep skepticism -- and it furthered it by showing that in fact what the Nixon White House was saying was true was not, in fact, true.
ELLEN FITZPATRICK: Well, it certainly preexisted in many ways, Watergate was a result of the concern over this kind of skepticism that existed; that is, there was an enormous amount of division in the United States over the war.
I think that probably, oddly enough, the after effect of Watergate and of the pendulum swinging back in the other direction has been that people have been more cautious or believe they should be more cautious about the use of anonymous sources.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june05/deepthroat_6-01.html   (1676 words)

  
 alldeaf.com v4 - Watergate's Deep Throat
A Watergate researcher and author says he now thinks the mysterious figure codenamed "Deep Throat" by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is none other than Papa Bush, reports The Boston Herald.
Arguably the most mysterious figure in American political history, Deep Throat is the one who divulged confidential information to Woodward and Bernstein that enabled them to crack the Watergate case and help bring down a presidency.
The elder Bush had a deep motivation to dislike President Richard Nixon, who had urged him to leave a safe congressional seat for a position as assistant secretary of the Treasury with a hint that Nixon would replace Spiro Agnew with Bush on the 1972 ticket.
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 SPIKE - Department of Journalism - University of Illinois
Woodward declined to discuss Throat with the students, saying "a good investigative reporter protects his sources." Some reporters have done jail time rather than reveal a source who has been promised anonymity, so Woodward's stance seems admirable.
Woodward has also told us Throat is a man who smokes and drinks Scotch whiskey and served in the executive branch of the federal government.
Meanwhile, the secrecy has caused the importance of Throat's contribution to be exaggerated and has unfairly cast suspicion on many people through published accounts based on speculation.
www.comm.uiuc.edu /spike/deepthroat   (473 words)

  
 JS Online:Watergate's Deep Throat revealed
He said the Watergate break-in came shortly after the death of legendary FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Felt's mentor, and that Felt and other bureau officials wanted to see an FBI veteran promoted to succeed Hoover.
Bradlee, in an interview Tuesday afternoon, said knowing that Deep Throat was a high-ranking FBI official helped him feel confident about the information that the paper was publishing about Watergate.
Bradlee said that over the years, "it was interesting to watch people flounder around with odd choices" about the identity of Deep Throat, nicknamed for an X-rated movie of the early 1970s.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=330276   (1332 words)

  
 ABC News: 'Deep Throat' Is Identified
Mark Felt, 91, an assistant director at the FBI in the 1970s, has told lawyer John D. O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, that he is "the man known as Deep Throat."
Only four people were said to know the source's identity: The Washington Post's Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of the Post; and, of course, Deep Throat himself.
The identity of Deep Throat, the source for details about Nixon's Watergate cover-up, has been called the best-kept secret in the history of Washington D.C., or at least in the history of politics and journalism.
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 Ex-FBI official says he's Watergate 'Deep Throat' - U.S. News - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Among other things, Deep Throat urged the reporters to follow the money trail — from the financing of burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee offices to the financing of Nixon’s re-election campaign.
Even the existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for an X-rated movie of the early 1970s, was kept secret for a time.
When Deep Throat wanted to meet, the hands of a clock would appear written inside Woodward’s copy of The New York Times.
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 Ex-FBI Man: I Am Watergate's 'Deep Throat' : People.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
One of the great mysteries of the 1970s is solved: the identity of "Deep Throat," the source who informed on the Richard Nixon White House to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Woodward and Bernstein reversed their decades-old vow to keep Deep Throat's identity a secret until his or her death, and confirmed Felt's claims.
Former Nixon White House chief of staff, Gen. Alexander Haig, who was rumored to have been Deep Throat himself at times, told PEOPLE that the outing of Felt will put the mystery to rest – but the reaction to his admission will be mixed.
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 Deep Throat - Watergate: A Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
October 10, 1972 FBI agents establish that the Watergate break-in stems from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of the Nixon reelection effort, The Post reports.
are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping in the Watergate incident.
Nixon's press secretary at first described the Watergate break-in as a "third-rate burglary," a symbol of his often-testy relations with reporters, dies after a heart attack.
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 Amazon.com: Deep Throat: The Watergate Informant: Books: Thomas Omalley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This Scotch-drinking Jesuit-trained lawyer was the Court's liaison to the FBI and CIA, a former spy, an expert in conspiracy law.
Bob Woodward, in a 1994 phone interview, confirmed the man was an informant to him on Watergate He has become a modern legend, a template for Hollywood characters, the G-Man in the parking garage, the smoking man in a trenchcoat.
Joseph Lowther is the man with the deep voice, the mysterious informant who helped bring down a President...
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/097252102X?v=glance   (362 words)

  
 Books on Richard Nixon - Watergate and the Vietnam Era
Watergate : The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon
The Watergate Affair, 1972: The Resignation of President Richard M. Nixon (Uncovered Editions)
A British MP offers an in-depth reassessment - written with Nixon's cooperation - of the career and character of America's most controversial modern president, discussing Nixon's rise, fall, and resurrection; his beliefs and intellectual influences; and his goals.
www.dropbears.com /b/broughsbooks/history/nixon.htm   (647 words)

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