Mark Felt1972
Felt provides Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads that see the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
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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.
Butterfield correctly identifies "Deep Throat" to the Hartford Courant, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt".
Butterfield correctly identifies "Deep Throat" 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.
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