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...claimed to have erased just a small part of the tape accidentally. The memo, written by Woods' attorney and made public today by the National Archives as part of a cache of more than 35,000 Woods documents, states that White House lawyers Leonard Garment and Fred Buzhardt told U.S. Judge John Sirica that Miss Woods intentionally erased the tape. Garment today denied the episode. Woods, now 77, hasn't commented...
...position to know a fact that Deep Throat told Woodward in early November 1973: "One or more of the [White House] tapes contained deliberate erasures." Others in a position to know were Nixon, his secretary Rose Mary Woods and White House Aides Stephen Bull and the late J. Fred Buzhardt. Haig had access to all the other information that Deep Throat fed or confirmed to Woodward, Dean claims. According to Dean, Haig probably would have been available for all the meetings described by Woodward in All the President's Men, with one noteworthy exception; Haig's "character" fits...
Watergate produced strange, wonderful double-entendre evasion. White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt Jr. referred to the famous 18½-min. gap on one tape as an "obliteration of the intelligence." Alexander Haig told Judge John Sirica that the gap might have been caused by "some sinister force...
Deep Throat is almost certainly J. Fred Buzhardt...
Nixon and Woods are nonstarters. Powers' service in the White House was too brief for him to have been Deep Throat. Bull, though a possibility, was much younger and much less cynical than the source Woodward describes. That leaves Buzhardt, Haig, Garment and Colson. Yet all seem too well known to roam the streets of Washington at odd hours, and it is difficult to imagine, say, the dignified Haig lurking in a garage at 3 a.m. or furtively filching Woodward's New York Times by 7 a.m. to draw a clock face on page 20 indicating the hour...