Vanity Fair: ‘I’m the guy they called Deep Throat’

Mark Felt is Deep Throat. So they say:

Despite three decades of intense speculation, the identity of “Deep Throat”–the source who leaked key details of Nixon’s Watergate cover-up to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein–has never been revealed. Now, at age 91, W. Mark Felt, number two at the F.B.I. in the early 70s, is finally admitting to that historic, anonymous role. In an exclusive, JOHN D. O’CONNOR puts a name and face to one of American democracy’s heroes, learning about the struggle between honor and duty that nearly led Felt to take his secret to the grave.

Here’s the full article (PDF).

Woodward/Bernstein have made specific denials about certain people in the past. Should we read anything into them not specifically denying this report???

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