ID of 'Deep Throat' revealed
2005-05-31 22:17
New York - Vainty Fair magazine reported on Tuesday that a retired FBI official, Mark Felt, had admitted being the "Deep Throat" source who leaked secrets about the Watergate cover-up that brought down former president Richard Nixon.
The true identity of the person who provided Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with crucial information about the Watergate scandal has been one of journalism's most-enduring mysteries.
Vanity Fair said Felt, now 91, had acknowledged his role to his family and had co-operated with the article.
Felt's family did not learn of this aspect of his past until 2002, when Felt's close friend and frequent social companion, Yvette la Garde, told his daughter, Joan, that Felt had confided to being Woodward's source.
The article said Joan confronted her father, who initially denied it, but after she explained La Garde's disclosure responded: "Since that's the case, well, yes I am."