W Mark Felt Sr, 95, associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, better known as Deep Throat, the most famous anonymous source in American history, died at his home in Santa Rosa, California. Felt secretly guided Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to pursue the story of the 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate office buildings, and later of the Nixon administration’s campaign of spying and sabotage against its perceived political enemies — via Slashdot
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