[Mb-civic] W. Mark Felt is Deep Throat

[Mike Blaxill]

Ex-FBI official says he's 'Deep Throat' 
Magazine quotes him as saying he was 'doing his
duty'
MSNBC

W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after
rising to its second most senior position, has
identified himself as the "Deep Throat" source
quoted by The Washington Post to break the
Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's
resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he
told John D. O'Connor, the author of Vanity
Fair's exclusive that appears in its July issue.

Felt, now 91 and living in Santa Rosa, Calif.
reportedly gave O'Connor permission to disclose
his identity.

"The Felt family cooperated fully, providing old
photographs for the story and agreeing to sit for
portraits," Vanity Fair stated in a press
release.

Felt said he was "only doing his duty" and did
not seek to bring down Nixon over the cover-up of
a break-in at Democratic Party offices in the
Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

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