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...Deep Throat tells Woodward that former Nixon campaign chairman John Mitchell and White House special counsel Charles Colson financed Hunt and Liddy's operation. Deep Throat confirms that Gray, below, destroyed files from Hunt's safe at the White House's direction. Gray withdraws his name from Senate consideration for the director's post and exits the FBI. Felt once again hopes to get the director's seat, but the job goes to William Ruckelshaus instead...
Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt, left, with his daughter Joan, is the celebrated Deep Throat...
They are not many, those persistently insoluble puzzles--the fates of Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart, Thomas Pynchon's unlisted phone number--but they add a dash of darkness to a world that generally appears to us in flat primary colors. Of them all, the identity of Deep Throat had been, for the past 33 years, the most tantalizing of those questions--in part because he placed himself at risk to bring down a corrupt government, in part because of the romantically noirish way he was portrayed in All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book...
...Follow the money," Deep Throat immortally advised Woodward, and the fact that Felt was now himself doing so, trying to parlay his Vanity Fair confession into a book deal, distressed some people. Besides retaining their looks, the spring in their stride, people who do good things are not supposed to cash in on them--however belatedly. That Felt may have had other, less than noble motives for his actions--he was angry at the Nixon Administration because he was passed over for the directorship of the FBI--also counted against him. When altruism is tainted by apparently mean--actually entirely...
...real sin of that little old man blinking in the California sunlight was against narrative conventions. If you go back and study the movie version of All the President's Men, which retains, long after the fact, its itchy power, you see that without Deep Throat, it would be a much less absorbing film. Mostly it is about a pair of reporters wearing out shoe leather, often enough in broad daylight or under the bright lights of the Washington Post newsroom, as they pursue their frustrating leads. That is entertaining, especially because we know how high the stakes...