Out of the shadows at last - Deep Throat

According to this story, the July issue of Vanity Fair will have an exclusive reporting that former assistant director of the FBI, W. Mark Felt, was, or rather is, Deep Throat. Felt has been a prime candidate mentioned in scores of books and reports on the Watergate affair but has always denied his involvement.

"I would have done better," Felt told The Hartford Courant. "I would have been more effective. Deep Throat didn’t exactly bring the White House crashing down, did he?" (1999)

As for Bernstein and Woodword, who have vowed not to disclose the identity of Deep Throat until after his/her death, Carl Bernstein issued a press release where he neither confirmed nor denied Felt's admission.

In the article, O'Connor reports that Felt's children, Joan and Mark Jr., urged him to go public after he revealed his secret to them in 2002.

Felt argued with them, O'Connor writes, saying he didn't want the story out there.

"I don’t think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of," Felt indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article. "You (should) not leak information to anyone."

But Joan is quoted as saying that "Bob Woodward's gonna get all the glory for this, but we could make at least enough money to pay some bills, like the debt I've run up for the kids' education. Let's do it for the family."

Now, that is heartwarming, is it not? His daughter, who ran up large bills to educate her own children, says, "Let's do it for the family."

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