Deep Throat’s many secret lives

Now that W. Mark Felt’s memoir (co-authored with John O’Connor, the Vanity Fair contributor who broke the story of Deep Throat’s real ID last year over the scooped Washington Post) is out in stores, the aforementioned Post tries to get some of its exclusive cred back by revealing some of the juicy tidbits the memoir includes. Things such Felt’s fury at Woodward for being described as ‘Deep Throat’ in print, his 1980 conviction for ordering “black bag jobs” (or secret, warrantless break-ins) and the real reason for the death of Felt’s wife, Audrey Robinson Felt: she shot herself in 1984 with his .38 service revolver after a long emotional and physical decline years of strain from Felt’s FBI career and ensuing legal troubles.

But that’s just the beginning. “In the FBI, agents learned to keep secrets and compartmentalize, and nobody built more compartments than Mark Felt,” O’Connor writes. “He isolated his family life from his Bureau life, hid aspects of his personal life and aspects of his professional life, and of course walled off his secret identity from his public identity.” That’s putting it mildly…

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