Finally the answer . . .

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For too many years, the identity of "Deep Throat" remained a mystery. Mr. Felt is a person who had the courage to tell us what we needed to know about abuse of power in the United States government, even if he felt he had to keep his identity secret

After all, the facts were (and are) the facts.

Updated: 03:10 PM EDT
Family Confirms W. Mark Felt's 'Deep Throat' Claim
By GREG SANDOVAL, AP

W. Mark Felt was No. 2 at the FBI during the Nixon administration.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (May 31) - A former FBI official claims he was ''Deep
Throat,'' the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President
Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. His
identity was revealed Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine, and family members
said they believe his account is true.

''The family believes my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American
hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself
to save his country from a horrible injustice,'' a family statement read by
grandson Nick Jones said. ''We all sincerely hope the country will see him
this way as well.''

Felt, who lives in Santa Rosa, kept the secret even from his family until
2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob
Woodward's source, the magazine said.

''My grandfather is pleased he is being honored for his role as Deep Throat
with his friend Bob Woodward,'' Jones said.

''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.'''

The Washington Post had no immediate comment on the report.

The existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for a popular porn movie of the
early 1970s, was revealed in Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling book
''All the President's Men.'' In the hit movie based on the book, Deep Throat
was played by Hal Holbrook.

But his identity of the source whose disclosures helped bring down the Nixon
presidency remained a mystery.

Among those named over the years as Deep Throat were Assistant Attorney
General Henry Peterson, deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding, and even
ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer, who then worked in the White House press office.
Ron Zeigler, Nixon's press secretary, White House aide Steven Bull,
speechwriters Ray Price and Pat Buchanan, and John Dean, the White House
counsel who warned Nixon of ''a cancer growing on the presidency,'' also
were considered candidates.

And some theorized Deep Throat wasn't a single source at all but a composite
figure.

In 1999, Felt denied he was the man.

''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?''

In 2003, Woodward and Bernstein reached an agreement to keep their Watergate
papers at the University of Texas at Austin.

At the time, the pair said documents naming ''Deep Throat'' would be kept
secure at an undisclosed location in Washington until the source's death.

In the family statement, Jones said his grandfather believes ''the men and
women of the FBI who have put their lives at risk for more than 50 years to
keep this country safe deserve recognition more than he.''

''On behalf of the Felt family we hope you see him as worthy of honor and
respect as we do,'' Jones said.

AP-NY-05-31-05 15:04 EDT

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