Leak: Why Mark Felt became Deep Throat

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Education, News, History

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🗓️ 26 April 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Intelligence officers and investigative journalists both depend on clandestine sources to divulge secrets. But why do people betray a trust? Peter interviews veteran journalist Max Holland about his new book, Leak, which probes the mind and motivations of one of the most famous clandestine sources in American history: Deep Throat. Hear why Mark Felt, the Deputy Director of the FBI, betrayed President Nixon by leaking to the Washington Post and Time about Watergate. Were Felt’s motives patriotic or self-serving…or both? Get the book: http://www.spymuseumstore.org/leak-shy-mark-felt-became-deep-throat.html#.Vz3q4PkrIdU

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1:33.8	I'm Peter Ernest, the executive director of the museum.
1:37.1	I served for some 36 years in the Central Intelligence Agency,
1:41.0	largely as what is called an operations officer or a case officer.
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1:55.0	My guest today is a rather well-known journalist and author, Max Holland.
2:02.0	He's the editor of the website Washington Decoded and
2:05.4	contributing editor to the Wilson Quarterly and the nation. He is the author of a
2:11.4	book that came out just several years ago,
2:13.5	the Kennedy assassination tapes, which were the White House
2:16.8	conversations of President Johnson regarding
2:19.7	the assassination and the Warren Commission and the aftermath. He is currently working on a book on the Warren Commission.
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