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Tuesday, June 14, 2005

How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI

The recent revelations about W. Mark Felt's identity as the Deep Throat informant of Watgergate fame have been dramatic and widely reported. But Felt's role as the most famous anonymous source in US history was even more complex than the newly revised public account suggests.

According to originally confidential FBI documents--some written by Felt--that were obtained by The Nation from the FBI's archives, Felt was at one time in charge of finding the source of Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate scoops. In a twist worthy of le Carré, Deep Throat was assigned the mission of unearthing--and stopping--Deep Throat.

For the details, read a special advance copy of David Corn and Jeff Goldberg's Nation magazine cover-story.

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050704&s=goldberg

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