Mark Felt Biography

Birth of Mark Felt

Appointed Deputy Associate Director of the FBI, assisting Associate Director Clyde Tolson

Felt provides Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads that see the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974

Provides Bob Woodward with confidential guidance and investigative leads that assist Washington Post reporting on Watergate.

Only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informants identity until it was revealed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine as former FBI Assistant Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005

Appointed Associate Director of the FBI, 2nd highest office in the FBI

Only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informants identity until it was revealed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine as former FBI Assistant Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005

Only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informants identity until it was revealed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine as former FBI Assistant Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005

Butterfield coorectly identifies "Deep Throsat" to the Hartford Courant, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt"

Former assistant FBI director Mark Felt announces that he was "Deep Throat," the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal

The admission takes even legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who had promised to keep their sources identity a secret until his death, by surprise.

Publicly identifies himself as Deep Throat, confirming that he was the confidential source who assisted Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during Watergate reporting.