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Witness History

The Search For Deep Throat

Witness History

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In July 2005, the identity of one of the most famous informants in American political history was revealed. Deep Throat leaked details of President Nixon's Watergate cover-up to the Washington Post leading eventually to the president's resignation. He was former assistant director at the FBI, Mark Felt. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to the lawyer who helped persuade the elderly Mark Felt to go public after 30 years of silence and speculation.

Picture: Bob Woodward (left) and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, at their desk, 29th April 1973. They nicknamed their anonymous source Deep Throat. (Credit: Getty Images)

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Hello and thank you for downloading Witness from the BBC World Service

1:09.6

with me Louise Adaggo.

1:11.6

In July 2005 the identity was revealed of one of the most famous

1:16.4

informants in American political history. In the early 1970s deep

1:20.9

throat leaked details of a presidential cover-up to the Washington Post.

1:26.0

The Watergate scandal would lead to the first resignation of a serving U.S. President, Richard Nixon. But who Deep Throat was would be kept secret for another 30 years.

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