FBI - 'DEEP THROAT' FELT DIES

'DEEP THROAT' FELT DIES

MARK FELT, the man who blew the whistle on the WATERGATE scandal and helped bring down U.S. President RICHARD NIXON, has died aged 95.
Felt, codenamed Deep Throat by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, fed the duo information about corruption within Nixon's government which led to the president's resignation in 1974.
The identity of the journalists' high-level source - which inspired the multi Oscar-winning film All The President's Men - remained a closely-guarded secret for 33 years until Felt unmasked himself during an interview with Vanity Fair magazine in 2005.
Felt, who was associate director for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when he began working with the reporters in 1972, died in his sleep on Thursday (19Dec08) at a California hospice. He had been in poor health for a number of years.
Felt and his wife Audrey, who died in 1984, had two children.