Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 08:46:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Tue, 31 May 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...

But "Deep Throat" is an _anti_-government hero.  Now, if he'd been
claiming that he was secretly responsible for the collapse of the Berlin
Wall, you'd have heard the voices of protest immediately.

-- Dick Eney

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