Deep Throat

Barry Sussman was an editor at the Washington Post throughout the Watergate years. In this 1997 article he reflects on how the media’s role in how the Watergate story unfolded, including the part played by Deep Throat.

Speaking on the NBC “Today” program, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said that Deep Throat was still alive. Woodward also said he was still in contact with Deep Throat and would only reveal the person’s name when he died.

Deep Throat was John Sears, according to a new book by Leonard Garment. Sears was a campaign worker for Richard Nixon who went to work in the White House, later becoming a Republican Party strategist, working for Ronald Reagan. The allegation by Garment is denied by Sears.

Deep Throat, the anonymous source who provided Watergate information to the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, is reportedly close to death. The claim is made in an article by John Dean, the former White House counsel to Richard Nixon, in an article in the Los Angeles Times.

The former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, W. Mark Felt, has been identified as Deep Throat by Vanity Fair magazine. The revelation has been confirmed by Bob Woodward in the Washington Post.

Mark Felt, whose Deep Throat identity was revealed in 2005, has died, aged 95, at his home in Santa Rosa, California. Includes AP video report on Felt and comments by Bob Woodward.