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...they used to call Deep Throat." W. MARK FELT, 91, deputy director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, disclosing he was the famed secret source relied upon by investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein...
Halberstam went, and began reporting on the small towns where the FBI did not have a strong presence and racial tensions often overflowed into violence...
...perceptive 1992 article in Atlantic Monthly, former Post reporter James Mann speculated that Felt or another top FBI official was the one who had leaked to Woodward as a way to protect his beloved FBI from Nixon's efforts to use the agency for political purposes. Deep Throat, wrote Mann, probably resented the appointment of outsider and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover...
NIXON: SOMEBODY IN THE FBI...
REFERRING TO FELT AS A "BASTARD," NIXON AGREES THEY CAN'T REMOVE FELT BECAUSE, AS HALDEMAN PUTS IT, "HE'LL GO OUT AND UNLOAD EVERYTHING. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING THAT'S TO BE KNOWN IN THE FBI...