Deep Throated

Deep Throat has been revealed: W. Mark Felt, number two at the FBI during the Nixon Administration, stepped out of the shadows and was made known to the public today.

"Mr. Woodward and Mr. Bernstein said in a statement posted this afternoon on The Post's Web site: “W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate.” [NYT]

"The confirmation came from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, and their former top editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee. The three spoke after Felt's family and Vanity Fair magazine identified the 91-year-old Felt, now a retiree in California, as the long-anonymous source who provided crucial guidance for some of the newspaper's groundbreaking Watergate stories." [WP]