Deep Throat

[vienna waits]

So someone spilled the beans?

[Janice]

You tell us. Who is it?

[vienna waits]

Not sure.. just caught the end of the Bush thing and someone was talking about Vanity Fair releasing a press release about it.

[James"Thunder"Early]

You tell us. Who is it?W. Mark Felt

[Janice]

Not sure.. just caught the end of the Bush thing and someone was talking about Vanity Fair releasing a press release about it.
I guess ABC News is reporting that it's Mark W. Felt, former assistant director of the FBI. He's 91 now, and his family is making the claim. I'm not so sure we'll ever really know unless Woodward or Bernstein fess up.

[*MIBabe03*]

:lol: Sorry my mind is in the gutter and I thought this thread was going to be about that porn movie. Never mind, carry on.

[vienna waits]

:lol: Sorry my mind is in the gutter and I thought this thread was going to be about that porn movie. Never mind, carry on.
:lol: I tried looking for something about this on the AOL search engine and it came up saying this could bring back material not suitable for those under the age of 18 blah blah blah..

ok anyways.

[Ags2000]

If you want to know more about Deep Throat, rent the movie "All the President's Men" It is a great movie about Woodward or Bernstein and it stars Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward.

It's a GREAT movie. Pretty right on.

D

[Ags2000]

Woodward and Bernstein have both released a statement saying that they still will not confirm NOR deny the identity of Deep Throat. As in the past they say they will reveal the identity after the confirmation of the person's death and not until then.

They have kept this promise for over 30 years and say they will not break from that now just because of an article in Vanity Fair.

D

[Brent88]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8047258/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8047258/)

He was 2nd in command at the FBI then.

[MsOrange]

?????????

idn't that a porn flick

[James"Thunder"Early]

?????????

idn't that a porn flickIt is one, but it's also the name the informant who leaked Watergate.

[MsOrange]

OHHHHHHHHHHH ok... thanks for clearin that up... for a minute there i thought there might actually be a reason for me to get interested in politics :lol:

[Janice]

If you want to know more about Deep Throat, rent the movie "All the President's Men" It is a great movie about Woodward or Bernstein and it stars Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford as Bob Woodward.

Maybe Deep Throat is really Hal Holbrook.....or Linda Lovelace. :lol:

[Janice]

Family Confirms W. Mark Felt's 'Deep Throat' Claim

Mark Felt was No. 2 at the FBI during the Nixon administration.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (May 31) - A former FBI official claims he was ''Deep Throat,'' the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His identity was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members said they believe his account is true.

''The family believes my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice,'' a family statement read by grandson Nick Jones said. ''We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.''

Felt, who lives in Santa Rosa, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

''My grandfather is pleased he is being honored for his role as Deep Throat with his friend Bob Woodward,'' Jones said.

''As he recently told my mother, 'I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he was a hero.'''

The Washington Post had no immediate comment on the report.

The existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for a popular porn movie of the early 1970s, was revealed in Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling book ''All the President's Men.'' In the hit movie based on the book, Deep Throat was played by Hal Holbrook.

But his identity of the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon presidency remained a mystery.

Among those named over the years as Deep Throat were Assistant Attorney General Henry Peterson, deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding, and even ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, who then worked in the White House press office. Ron Zeigler, Nixon's press secretary, White House aide Steven Bull, speechwriters Ray Price and Pat Buchanan, and John Dean, the White House counsel who warned Nixon of ''a cancer growing on the presidency,'' also were considered candidates.

And some theorized Deep Throat wasn't a single source at all but a composite figure.

In 1999, Felt denied he was the man.

''I would have done better,'' Felt told The Hartford Courant. ''I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn't exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?''

In 2003, Woodward and Bernstein reached an agreement to keep their Watergate papers at the University of Texas at Austin.

At the time, the pair said documents naming ''Deep Throat'' would be kept secure at an undisclosed location in Washington until the source's death.

In the family statement, Jones said his grandfather believes ''the men and women of the FBI who have put their lives at risk for more than 50 years to keep this country safe deserve recognition more than he.''

''On behalf of the Felt family we hope you see him as worthy of honor and respect as we do,'' Jones said.

[Seinatra]

I'm getting confused, why was the 2nd in command of the FBI doing porn movies?

[James"Thunder"Early]

I'm getting confused, why was the 2nd in command of the FBI doing porn movies?We're talking about two seperate things. Deep Throat is the informant for Watergate, but it's also the name of a porn movie.

[Brian]

The Washington Post also confirms Felt as Deep Throat.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - The Washington Post said Tuesday that a former FBI (http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=FBI) official, W. Mark Felt, was the confidential source known as "Deep Throat" who provided the newspaper information that led to President Nixon's impeachment and eventual resignation.

The paper made its announcement on its Web site after Felt, 91 and living in California, talked to a lawyer who wrote a magazine article for Vanity Fair.

"The No. 2 guy from the FBI, that was a pretty good source," said Ben Bradlee, who had been the key editor at the Post in the Watergate era.

"I knew the paper was on the right track" in its investigative stories, Bradlee said, citing the "quality of the source."

Felt, the second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept his secret even from his family for almost three decades before confiding he was Post reporter Bob Woodward's source on the Watergate scandal, according to a Vanity Fair article published Tuesday.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he was quoted as telling lawyer John D. O'Connor, author of the magazine article.

[*MIBabe03*]

Hey who came up with the name "Deep Throat" anyway.

[Screenwriter]

Bernstein and Woodward have confirmed that it is W. Mark Felt.

I don't know why they call him Deep Throat. I'd really like to know.

[Brian]

The name came from a 70s X-rated porno.

[*MIBabe03*]

The name came from a 70s X-rated porno.

I knew that part. I just wanted to know if Bernstein and Woodward came up with it, or if Felt came up with it.

[Ags2000]

I knew that part. I just wanted to know if Bernstein and Woodward came up with it, or if Felt came up with it.

If I remember correctly, the original Deep Throat came up with it. I say original, because there were reports for years saying that all of Deep Throats information came from several people. That Woodward and Bernstein used Deep Throat as the name of several informants.

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[Brian]

I knew that part. I just wanted to know if Bernstein and Woodward came up with it, or if Felt came up with it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/01/DI2005060100769.html

Kensington, Md.: Who came up with the name "Deep Throat" -- and why "Deep Throat?"

Leonard Downie: The late Howard Simons, who was managing editor of The Washington Post in 1972, coined the phrase in humorous reference to a then popular, off-color movie -- and the name stuck.

[*MIBabe03*]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/06/01/DI2005060100769.html

Kensington, Md.: Who came up with the name "Deep Throat" -- and why "Deep Throat?"

Leonard Downie: The late Howard Simons, who was managing editor of The Washington Post in 1972, coined the phrase in humorous reference to a then popular, off-color movie -- and the name stuck.


Thanks for the information.