Deep throat to be revealed in Washington Post obituary

[imported_I, fuzzbot.]

'Deep Throat Close to Death'

By Victoria Ward, PA in New York

The notorious Deep Throat source who helped bring down US President Richard Nixon is close to death, it was claimed today.

The identity of the Watergate source has remained a mystery for almost 30 years, fuelling speculation and rumour, the latest even suggesting it was former president George Bush Snr.

But former White House counsel John Dean’s allegations suggest otherwise.

According to Dean, Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter to whom Deep Throat leaked information, has told the newspaper editor his source is ill.

“We’ll all know one day very soon,” he writes in the Los Angeles Times.

“Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source’s identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat’s obituary.”

If and when the posthumous profile reveals the elusive name it could put paid to another claim – that the man who brought down one president was actually another.

Watergate researcher Adrian Havill claims on a journalism website that it was Bush Snr who was responsible for the biggest scandal in US political history.

Havill, who has previously claimed Deep Throat was a composite of several sources, says new information now persuades him otherwise.

He writes that he began to suspect Bush when his son, who dislikes the press, gave Woodward seven hours of interviews.

Bush Snr was UN ambassador in New York between 1971 and 1973 but visited Washington almost every weekend, he notes. Seven of the eight Deep Throat meetings took place at weekends.

[mburbank]

Wow. Major, major. I cannot wait, I have been dieing to know this for most of my life.

[sspadowsky]

I thought it was Linda Lovelace?

[Jeanette X]

"...just follow the money."

Wow...this is really something.

I don't think that its Bush Sr. though. Bush Sr. isn't dying.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

yeah, we don't have that kind of luck...

[the_dudefather]

wasnt deepthroat killed on shadow moses island?

lol

[Zebra 3]

(Studio Briefing) Deep Throat, regarded as the most successful porn film of all time (it cost $25,000 to make in 1972 and has earned more than $600 million) will be re-released later this month as both an NC-17 production and an R-rated censored edition, Daily Variety reported today (Tuesday). The release coincides with that of Inside Deep Throat, an NC-17 documentary produced by Imagine Entertainment's Brian Grazer, that discusses the trials and tribulations of those involved in producing the original movie.

[Big Papa Goat]

Jimmy James is dying?

[jimbutsu]

It's too bad Linda Lovelace is already dead, because it'd be pretty swell if it turned out she was "Deep Throat" in some bizarre twist.

Now THAT'S method acting!

[theapportioner]

Some people suspect Rehnquist. Or maybe it's the Pope...

[Rez]

WHOA!

so.. has it happened yet?

[Chojin]

it was mitch hedberg all along :<

[Ninjavenom]

Follow the money... aaaaright

[Rez]

heeeere we are....


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.

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"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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