Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:15:06 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:01 PM 5/31/2005, Michael Walsh wrote:
> > sfbookfan at yahoo.com 5/31/2005 11:48:42 AM >>>
> >I have the TV on and this story just broke.  An
> >article in Vanity Fair identifies Deep Throat as W.
> >Mark Felt.  I believe he was #2 at the F.B.I. during
> >the Nixon administration.  He's currently ill and
> >living in CA.  The writer of the article was
> >interviewed on ABC news by Charlie Gibson
>
>This: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8047258/ has "W. Mark Felt, who retired
>from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has
>identified himself as the 'Deep Throat' "
>
>Of course the more conspiratorially minded will claim he's actually
>covering up for someone else...

The following went up on the Washington Post online about half an hour ago:

"The Washington Post today confirmed that W. Mark Felt, a former number-two
official at the FBI, was "Deep Throat," the secretive source who provided
information that helped unravel the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s
and contributed to the resignation of president Richard M. Nixon.

The confirmation came from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two
Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, and their former
top editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee."