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Tue, 31 May 2005

Deep Throat's Identity Revealed

The Washington Post has confirmed that W. Mark Felt, then a senior FBI official, was Woodward and Bernstein's mysterious source, "Deep Throat".

Wounded that he was passed over for the top job, furious at Nixon's choice of an outsider, Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III, determined that the White House not be allowed to steer and stall the FBI's Watergate investigation, Mark Felt slipped into the role that would forever alter his life.

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