He had initially been adamant about keeping silent on the issue, thinking disclosures about his past somehow dishonourable. “We have said all along that when that person dies we will reveal his identity.”įelt said he was “only doing his duty” and had not intended to bring Nixon down over the scandal concerning the cover-up of a 1972 break in at Democratic party offices in Washington, according to the magazine. “As in the past we are not going to say anything about this,” Bernstein said. In statements both Woodward and his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein refused to corroborate or deny the claims. Lawyer, John O’Connor, said he decided to write the Vanity Fair article after witnessing the decline of Felt’s health and mental acuity and having got permission from both him and his daughter, Joan.įelt’s family had no idea about his secret identity until 2002 when his close friend Yvette La Garde told Joan he had confided to her that he had been Woodward’s source, the magazine reports.įelt initially denied it when confronted by his daughter but when she explained La Garde’s disclosure, he reportedly replied: “Since that’s the case, well, yes I am.” If true, the revelation solves a mystery that has captivated Washington for more than three decades.ĭeep Throat became the most famous political source in history after leaking secrets about Nixon’s Watergate cover-up in the early 1970s, when Felt was second-in-command at the FBI. “On behalf of the Felt family we hope you see him as worthy of honour and respect as we do.” “As he recently told my mother: ’I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he was a hero,'" he added. He said Felt was pleased he was being honoured for his role as Deep Throat, alongside Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. “We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.”
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