Deep Throat Gargles Up
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| Deep Throat in an 1958 FBI publicity photo. From Wikipedia |
Although I was far too young to follow the events at the time, the Washington Post stories combined with the followup book and movie to create a popular images of the fearless investigative reporter, the showdowy government insider with unclear motives and the newspaper publishers taking a risk for the big story.
So it seems ironic that Deep Throat--no excuse me, W. Mark Felt, the number two man at the FBI in the early 1970s--was a close assistant of the notorious FBI head J. Edgar Hoover and was himself convicted in 1980 for authorizing government agents to break into homes of suspected anti-Vietnam war protesters (looking for suspects from the radical Weather Underground bombings).
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