D4subtopicdeep-throat-summary.docx

I AM THE GUY THEY CALLED “DEEP-THROAT”  

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Deep Throat is an alias used by a certain person who leaked the key details of Nixon’s Watergate cover-up to Washington Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein John D. O’connor- author of this piece to the Vanity Fair. This piece is about W. MARK FELTwho is number 2 in the FBI in the early 70s, finally admitting that he is the infamous DEEP THROAT after decades of anonymity. June 17, 1972- FIVE burglars were caught breaking into the headquarters of Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex, along the Potomac River. Two members of the team were found to have address books with scribbles "W. House" and "W.H." They were operating, as it turned out, on the orders of E. Howard Hunt, a onetime C.I.A. agent who had recently worked in the White House, and G. Gordon Liddy, an ex–F.B.I. agent who was on the payroll of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CRP, pronounced Creep, which was organizing Nixon's run against Senator George McGovern, the South Dakota Democrat). Funds for the break-in, laundered through a Mexican bank account, had actually come from the coffers of CRP, headed by John Mitchell, who had been attorney general during Nixon's first term. Following the break-in, suspicions were raised throughout Washington: What were five men with Republican connections doing with gloves, cameras, large amounts of cash, and bugging equipment in the Democrats' top campaign office? the author had a daughter and her friend named Nick Jones went to their house and related to Nick the story of his father who is an undercover FBI agent in Rio. Nick told him that his grandfather was an agent of the FBI too and that his lolo’s name was Mark Felt. Joan Felt- daughter of mark, (mother of Nick) was completing her chores on a morning of AUGUST 1999 when someone came knocking in their door and introduced himself as BOB WOODWARD- when she told his father, his father immediately told the reporter to come in and they went out for a drink together. Confused, the daughter wondered that it was unusual of her father to respond to the visits of reporters. Felt was already on a fragile age (more or less 90) when he talked to the author. He was hesitant at first of revealing his identity as deep throat, because he believed that he is no hero in leaking confidential information of the president to the reporters even though it was done with a good cause. However, he wanted to reveal himself before he dies. According to him, he and Woodward would exchange signals in order to meet with each other without suspensions, Woodward would put a flaglet in pot in the window of his apartment if he wanted to talk with Felt and Felt would draw hands of a clock on page 24 on the newspaper to be delivered before 7am on Woodward’s house. They would meet in an isolated carpark. He narrated how the president did his best to cover-up his involvement in the Watergate incident and he even used his powers as the president to prevent people inside the government to findout or to talk about their involvement.