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Thursday, June 30, 2005
 
Deep Throat Revealed in 1976

Bob Woodward's new book on Deep Throat, Mark Felt, comes out July 6, but some details have leaked. Here's what I thought was the most interesting so far:

Former Justice Department official Stanley Pottinger figured out in 1976
that Felt had been Deep Throat, but never told anyone but Woodward of his
conclusion. Pottinger discovered the truth during testimony Felt was giving
before a grand jury in 1976. The grand jury's probe was not related to
Watergate, but one of the jurors asked Felt if he had been Deep
Throat.

According to Woodward, Felt answered "no." Pottinger then reminded
Felt he was under oath, and offered to have the question and answer withdrawn
because they were "outside the bounds of the investigation."

"Flushed," Woodward writes, "Felt very rapidly requested, 'Withdraw the
question.' " Woodward writes that Pottinger knew then that Felt had been Deep
Throat. Pottinger did not reveal what he had heard, Woodward writes, because he
did not think it appropriate to unmask a reporter's confidential source.


- posted by Joshua @ 4:20 PM
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