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28_12ecb.xml_53	train	ent	28_12ecb.xml	2	W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	13	14	60	73	United States	10000000308	United	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'fbi', 'official', 'end', 'united', 'states', 'intriguing', 'political', 'mystery', 'he', 'identify', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'nickname', 'anonymous', 'source', 'helped', 'guide', 'washington', 'post', 'pulitzer', 'prize-winning', 'investigation', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die']	W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the <m> United States </m> ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the <m> United States </m> ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former <m> FBI </m> official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former <m> FBI </m> official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide <m> The Washington Post 's </m> Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide <m> The Washington Post 's </m> Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_57	train	ent	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	18	19	118	137	Weather Underground	10000000311	Underground	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical <m> Weather Underground </m> , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical <m> Weather Underground </m> , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_52	train	ent	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	39	40	227	236	Rob Jones	HUM16975370612436505	Jones	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson <m> Rob Jones </m> said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson <m> Rob Jones </m> said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of <m> members </m> of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_61	train	ent	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	21	21	140	144	Felt	HUM16762554083083396	Felt	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , <m> Felt </m> died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , <m> Felt </m> died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` <m> Deep Throat </m> '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` <m> Deep Throat </m> '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI <m> official </m> who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI <m> official </m> who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_36	train	ent	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	2	2	16	22	figure	HUM16762554083083396	figure	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial <m> figure </m> who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial <m> figure </m> who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when <m> he </m> identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when <m> he </m> identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified <m> himself </m> as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified <m> himself </m> as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous <m> source </m> who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous <m> source </m> who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the <m> nickname </m> for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the <m> nickname </m> for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_56	train	ent	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	26	26	167	175	Thursday	TIM16942369985815303	Thursday	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure <m> Thursday </m> at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure <m> Thursday </m> at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who <m> ended </m> one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who <m> ended </m> one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended <m> one </m> of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended <m> one </m> of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he <m> identified </m> himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he <m> identified </m> himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the <m> Watergate </m> scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the <m> Watergate </m> scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who <m> helped </m> guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who <m> helped </m> guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt <m> died </m> of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has <m> died </m> .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has <m> died </m> . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped <m> guide </m> The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped <m> guide </m> The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_54	train	evt	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	8	8	50	61	authorizing	10000000318	authorize	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of <m> authorizing </m> illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of <m> authorizing </m> illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_55	train	evt	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	6	6	37	46	convicted	10000000319	convict	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later <m> convicted </m> of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later <m> convicted </m> of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_59	train	evt	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	10	10	70	80	activities	10000000320	activity	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal <m> activities </m> in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal <m> activities </m> in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning <m> investigation </m> into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning <m> investigation </m> into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_66	train	evt	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	24	25	153	166	heart failure	ACT16762512442913619	failure	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of <m> heart failure </m> Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of <m> heart failure </m> Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
28_12ecb.xml_40	train	evt	28_12ecb.xml	4	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	12	12	84	91	pursuit	10000000322	pursuit	['controversial', 'figure', 'later', 'convict', 'authorize', 'illegal', 'activity', 'pursuit', 'member', 'radical', 'weather', 'underground', 'felt', 'die', 'heart', 'failure', 'thursday', 'his', 'home', 'santa', 'rosa', 'calif', 'his', 'grandson', 'rob', 'jones', 'say']	A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in <m> pursuit </m> of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in <m> pursuit </m> of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political <m> mysteries </m> when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died .	Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political <m> mysteries </m> when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones said . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Mark Felt , 'Deep Throat ' in Watergate reports , dies Former FBI official had storied role in Washington Post investigation that brought down Nixon W. Mark Felt , the former FBI official who ended one of the United States ' most intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as `` Deep Throat '' -- the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide The Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died . He was 95 . A controversial figure who was later convicted of authorizing illegal activities in pursuit of members of the radical Weather Underground , Felt died of heart failure Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa , Calif . , his grandson Rob Jones <m> said </m> . Felt was deputy associate director of the FBI in 1972 when he began supplying information to Bob Woodward , who with Carl Bernstein made up The Post 's investigative duo who doggedly pursued the story of the Watergate break-in and a conspiracy that led directly to President Richard M. Nixon , who ultimately resigned . The reporters continued to keep Felt 's name a secret , but in 2005 , at the age of 91 , Felt told Vanity Fair magazine , `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' His disclosure ended a mystery that had intrigued Washington insiders and journalists for three decades and provided the grist for many hotly debated newspaper and magazine articles . While Felt 's name was raised as a suspect on several occasions , he always managed to deflect attention , usually by saying that if had been Deep Throat he would have done a better job of exposing the wrongdoings at the White House . His disclosure in a Vanity Fair article by his family 's lawyer , John D. O'Connor , provoked a national debate: Was he a hero who should be lauded for sparing the country the strain of further high crimes and misdemeanors by the Nixon White House ? Or was he a traitor who betrayed not only his president but his oath of office by disclosing grand jury information and the contents of FBI files ? For the most part , reaction split along political lines . `` There 's nothing heroic about breaking faith with your people , '' said commentator Patrick J. Buchanan , a former Nixon speechwriter . Felt `` disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for . '' But Richard Ben-Veniste , a key lawyer in the Watergate prosecution team , said Felt 's role showed that `` the importance of whistle-blowers should n't be underestimated , particularly when there are excesses by the executive branch of government -- which in this case went all the way to the executive office . '' Felt 's moment in history began to unfold shortly after five men in business suits were arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington on June 17 , 1972 , after breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee . Nixon press secretary Ron Ziegler dismissed the incident as `` a third-rate burglary , '' but details gradually tumbled out tying the burglars to the president 's re-election campaign . Misdeeds in the White House were uncovered , hearings were conducted in the House of Representatives and Senate , and for the first time in American history a president was forced to resign . The relationship that defined a generation in journalism began about 1970 when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant assigned to the Pentagon as a watch officer . In his book , `` The Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat , '' published after the Vanity Fair article appeared , Woodward wrote that he met Felt when he delivered a package of documents to the White House and struck up a conversation with him in a waiting room . From that initial meeting , Woodward cultivated a friendship that would pay off handsomely after he entered journalism . Felt began to provide tips to Woodward when he was a cub reporter at the Montgomery County Sentinel , a suburban Maryland newspaper , and later at The Post , where he was tipped by Felt on stories about the investigation of the 1972 shooting of George C. Wallace , the Alabama governor then running for president . When Woodward was assigned to the Watergate break-in , he again pressed Felt for help . His request came during a crucial moment in the FBI 's history: Felt 's mentor , the legendary founding director J. Edgar Hoover , had died the month before the break-in , and Assistant Attorney General L. Patrick Gray III had been named acting director . Felt feared -- and his suspicions were later proven right -- that Gray was too close to the Nixon administration to conduct an uncompromised investigation . Felt agreed to help Woodward but only on `` deep background , '' a term meaning that `` the information could be used , '' Woodward wrote , `` but no source of any kind would be identified in the newspaper . '' Felt insisted on using covert rules he had learned while working in the FBI 's espionage section during World War II . If Woodward needed to talk to Felt , he would move a flower pot with a red cloth flag in it to the front of his apartment balcony . If Felt needed to talk to the reporter -- to correct something The Post had written or to convey other information -- he would circle page 20 in Woodward 's home-delivered copy of The New York Times and draw clock hands on the page to indicate the time of the meeting . He resisted telephone contact in favor of clandestine 2 a.m. encounters at an underground parking garage in Rosslyn , Virginia . The two met from June 19 , 1972 -- two days after the break-in -- to November 1973 , five months after Felt left the FBI . Within the paper , only Woodward and Bernstein knew the identity of Deep Throat , a name borrowed from a notorious pornographic movie of the era . But Felt dealt only with Woodward , and Bernstein did not meet him until 2008 . When Nixon left office on Aug. 9 , 1974 , the two reporters shared the secret with Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee , who until then had only known that the source was a high Justice Department official . Nixon , according to Woodward , had suspected Felt of being the confidential source and assumed him to be part of a Jewish cabal out to get him . According to Vanity Fair , Felt had no religious affiliation .
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Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_13	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	0	2	0	12	W. Mark Felt	HUM16762554083083396	Mark	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	<m> W. Mark Felt </m> , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 <m> W. Mark Felt </m> , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_14	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	7	9	27	41	No. 2 official	HUM16762554083083396	official	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the <m> No. 2 official </m> at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the <m> No. 2 official </m> at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_15	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	14	14	58	60	he	HUM16762554083083396	he	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when <m> he </m> helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when <m> he </m> helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_16	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	29	30	155	166	Deep Throat	HUM16762545642473164	Throat	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming <m> Deep Throat </m> , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming <m> Deep Throat </m> , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_17	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	36	36	195	201	source	HUM16762545642473164	source	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous <m> source </m> in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous <m> source </m> in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_18	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	19	21	89	105	Richard M. Nixon	HUM27379778521624645	Richard	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President <m> Richard M. Nixon </m> by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President <m> Richard M. Nixon </m> by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_22	train	ent	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	42	43	229	240	on Thursday	TIM16942369985815303	Thursday	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died <m> on Thursday </m> .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died <m> on Thursday </m> . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_21	train	evt	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	41	41	224	228	died	ACT16762501657378707	die	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , <m> died </m> on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , <m> died </m> on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_23	train	evt	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	16	17	68	78	bring down	ACT27379751006237079	bring	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped <m> bring down </m> President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped <m> bring down </m> President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_24	train	evt	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	25	26	123	141	Watergate cover-up	ACT16762247559380266	Watergate	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the <m> Watergate cover-up </m> and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the <m> Watergate cover-up </m> and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_25	train	evt	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	23	23	109	118	resisting	10000000325	resist	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by <m> resisting </m> the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by <m> resisting </m> the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_26	train	evt	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	38	39	205	221	American history	10000000326	american	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in <m> American history </m> , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in <m> American history </m> , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
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Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_7ecb.xml_28	train	evt	28_7ecb.xml	1	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and becoming Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	28	28	146	154	becoming	10000000328	become	['w.', 'mark', 'felt', 'no.', '2', 'official', 'fbi', 'he', 'help', 'bring', 'president', 'richard', 'm.', 'nixon', 'resist', 'watergate', 'cover-up', 'deep', 'throat', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'american', 'history', 'die', 'thursday']	W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and <m> becoming </m> Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday .	Mark Felt , FBI official who became 'Deep Throat , ' dead at 95 W. Mark Felt , who was the No. 2 official at the FBI when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and <m> becoming </m> Deep Throat , the most famous anonymous source in American history , died on Thursday . He was 95 and lived in Santa Rosa . His death was confirmed by Rob Jones , his grandson . In 2005 , Felt revealed that he was the source who had secretly supplied Bob Woodward of The Washington Post with crucial leads in the Watergate affair in the early nineteen seventies . His decision to unmask himself , in an article in Vanity Fair , ended a guessing game that had gone on for more than 30 years . The disclosure even surprised Woodward and his partner on the Watergate story , Carl Bernstein . They had kept their promise not to reveal his identity until after his death . Indeed , Woodward was so scrupulous about shielding Felt that he did not introduce him to Bernstein until this year , 36 years after they cracked the scandal . The three met for two hours one afternoon in November in Santa Rosa , where Felt had retired . The reporters likened it to a family reunion . Felt played a dual role in Nixon 's downfall . As a secret informant , he kept the story alive in the press . As associate director of the FBI , he fought the president 's efforts to obstruct the FBI 's investigation of the Watergate break-in . Felt later said he believed that Nixon had been misusing the FBI for political advantage . He knew that Nixon wanted the Watergate affair to vanish . He knew that the White House had ordered the CIA to tell the bureau , on grounds of national security , to stand down in its felony investigation of the June 1972 break-in . He saw that order as an effort to obstruct justice , and he rejected it . That resistance led indirectly to Nixon 's resignation . Passed up for promotion Felt had expected to be named to succeed J. Edgar Hoover , who had run the bureau for 48 years and died in May 1972 . The president instead chose a politically loyal Justice Department official , L. Patrick Gray , who later followed orders from the White House to destroy documents in the case . The choice infuriated Felt . He later wrote that the president `` wanted a politician in J. Edgar Hoover 's position who would convert the bureau into an adjunct of the White House machine . '' Hoover had sworn off break-ins without warrants - `` black bag jobs , '' he called them - in 1966 , after carrying them out at the FBI for four decades . The Nixon White House hired its own operatives to steal information , plant eavesdropping equipment and hunt down the sources of leaks . The Watergate break-in took place six weeks after Hoover died . While Watergate was seething , Felt authorized nine illegal break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of members of the Weather Underground , a violent left-wing splinter group . The people he chose as targets had committed no crimes . The FBI had no search warrants . He later said he ordered the break-ins because he felt national security required it . In a criminal trial , Felt was convicted in November 1980 of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans . Nixon , who had denounced him in private for leaking Watergate secrets , testified on his behalf . Called by the prosecution , he told the jury that presidents and by extension their officers had an inherent right to conduct illegal searches in the name of national security . `` As Deep Throat , Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land , '' the prosecutor , John W. Nields , wrote in The Washington Post in 2005 . `` Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs , he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him . '' Seven months after the conviction , President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt . Then 67 , Felt celebrated the decision as one of great symbolic value . `` This is going to be the biggest shot in the arm for the intelligence community for a long time , '' he said . After the pardon , Nixon sent him a congratulatory bottle of champagne . Felt then disappeared from public view for a quarter of a century , denying unequivocally , time and again , that he had been Deep Throat . It was a lie he told to serve what he believed to be a higher truth . William Mark Felt was born in Twin Falls , Idaho , on Aug. 17 , 1913 . After graduating from the University of Idaho , he was drawn to public service in Washington and went to work for Sen. James P. Pope , D-Idaho . In 1938 , he married his college sweetheart , Audrey Robinson , in Washington . They were wed by the chaplain of the House of Representatives . She died in 1984 . The couple had a daughter , Joan , and a son , Mark . They and four grandsons survive Felt . Days before Pearl Harbor , after earning a law degree in night classes at George Washington University , Felt applied to the FBI and joined it in January 1942 . He spent most of World War II hunting German spies . After stints in Seattle , New Orleans and Los Angeles , Hoover named him special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City and Kansas City offices in the late nineteen fifties . Rising to high positions at the headquarters in the 1960s , he oversaw the training of FBI agents and conducted internal investigations as chief of the inspection division . In early 1970 , while waiting in an anteroom of the West Wing of the White House , Felt chanced to meet a Navy lieutenant delivering classified messages to the National Security Council staff . The young man in dress blues was Bob Woodward . By his own description fiercely ambitious and in need of adult guidance , Woodward tried to wring career counseling from his elder . He left the White House with the number to Felt 's direct line at the FBI On July 1 , 1971 , Hoover promoted Felt to deputy associate director , the third in command at the headquarters , beneath Hoover 's right-hand man and longtime companion , Clyde A. Tolson . With both of his superiors in poor health , Felt increasingly took effective command of the daily work of the FBI . When Hoover died and Tolson retired , he saw his path to power cleared . But Nixon denied him , and he seethed with frustrated ambition in summer 1972 . Breaking Watergate One evening that summer , a few weeks after the Watergate break-in , Woodward , then a neophyte newspaperman , knocked on Felt 's door in pursuit of the story . Felt decided to cooperate with him and set up an elaborate system of espionage techniques for clandestine meetings with Woodward . If Woodward needed to talk , he would move a flowerpot planted with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment on P Street in Washington . If Felt had a message , Woodward 's home-delivered New York Times would arrive with an inked circle on Page 20 . Woodward would leave his apartment by the back alley that night and take one taxi to a downtown hotel , then a second to an underground parking garage in the Rosslyn section of Arlington , Virginia . Within weeks , Felt steered The Post to a story establishing that the Watergate break-in was part of `` a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage '' directed by the White House . For the next eight months , he did his best to keep the newspaper on the trail , largely by providing , on `` deep background , '' anonymous confirmation of facts reporters had gathered from others . The Post 's managing editor , Howard Simons , gave him his famous pseudonym , taken from the pornographic movie then in vogue . Millions of Americans knew him only as a shadowy figure in the 1976 movie made from the Watergate saga , `` All the President 's Men , '' which made `` Woodward and Bernstein '' legends of American journalism . In the movie , Deep Throat ( Hal Holbrook ) gives Woodward ( Robert Redford ) probably the most famous bit of free advice in the history of investigative journalism . It was a three-word road map to the heart of the matter : `` Follow the money . '' Felt never said it . It was part of the myth that surrounded Deep Throat .
28_8ecbplus.xml_9	train	ent	28_8ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .	17	18	89	102	Gary Hargrove	HUM16762387067149443	Hargrove	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'tuesday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi', 'coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say']	His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner <m> Gary Hargrove </m> said .	http : / / amarillo . com / stories / 072904 / usn _ watergate . shtml Watergate figure Fred LaRue found dead in hotel Posted : Thursday , July 29 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a high - ranking Nixon administration official who served a prison term for his role in Watergate and was among those rumored to be Deep Throat , has died . He was 75 . His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner <m> Gary Hargrove </m> said . The coroner said he thinks LaRue died Saturday of natural causes . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet and served 412 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Nixon's Committee to Re - elect the President . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was probably a combination of people .
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28_8ecbplus.xml_79	train	evt	28_8ecbplus.xml	3	Fred LaRue , a high - ranking Nixon administration official who served a prison term for his role in Watergate and was among those rumored to be Deep Throat , has died .	17	17	93	97	role	ACT16970383345303536	role	['fred', 'larue', 'high', 'ranking', 'nixon', 'administration', 'official', 'serve', 'prison', 'term', 'his', 'role', 'watergate', 'rumor', 'deep', 'throat', 'die']	Fred LaRue , a high - ranking Nixon administration official who served a prison term for his <m> role </m> in Watergate and was among those rumored to be Deep Throat , has died .	http : / / amarillo . com / stories / 072904 / usn _ watergate . shtml Watergate figure Fred LaRue found dead in hotel Posted : Thursday , July 29 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a high - ranking Nixon administration official who served a prison term for his <m> role </m> in Watergate and was among those rumored to be Deep Throat , has died . He was 75 . His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said . The coroner said he thinks LaRue died Saturday of natural causes . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet and served 412 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Nixon's Committee to Re - elect the President . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was probably a combination of people .
28_4ecb.xml_13	train	ent	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	18	18	95	100	world	10000000330	world	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the <m> world </m> as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the <m> world </m> as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_9	train	ent	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	0	1	0	9	Mark Felt	HUM16762554083083396	Mark	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	<m> Mark Felt </m> , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	<m> Mark Felt </m> , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_10	train	ent	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	21	22	107	118	Deep Throat	HUM16762554083083396	Throat	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` <m> Deep Throat </m> '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` <m> Deep Throat </m> '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_16	train	ent	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	7	7	38	44	source	HUM16762545642473164	source	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous <m> source </m> in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous <m> source </m> in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
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A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_11	train	evt	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	15	15	82	87	known	ACT16974938297863649	know	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was <m> known </m> to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was <m> known </m> to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_12	train	evt	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	10	10	52	59	history	10000000331	history	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the <m> history </m> of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the <m> history </m> of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_14	train	evt	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	25	25	124	128	died	ACT16762501657378707	die	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , <m> died </m> yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , <m> died </m> yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_4ecb.xml_17	train	evt	28_4ecb.xml	0	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of journalism who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	12	12	63	73	journalism	10000000332	journalism	['mark', 'felt', 'famous', 'anonymous', 'source', 'history', 'journalism', 'know', 'world', '``', 'deep', 'throat', 'die', 'yesterday', 'age', '95']	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of <m> journalism </m> who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 .	Mark Felt , the most famous anonymous source in the history of <m> journalism </m> who was known to the world as `` Deep Throat '' , died yesterday aged 95 . As the associate director of the FBI , Mr Felt was outraged by the Nixon administration 's attempts to block its investigation of the Watergate scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 . A master of counter-intelligence from his days tracking German WWII spies , he secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursue the story . It was thirty four years before he finally broke cover , admitting in 2006: `` I 'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat . '' By then , he was so crippled by a stroke and Alzheimer 's disease that his memory of his role in US history had almost vanished . From the first day of the bungled 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee 's headquarters in the Watergate hotel Mr Felt was at the heart of the FBI investigation . The agency soon learned that the Nixon administration was running an extensive spying and sabotage campaign against its political enemies . Under intense pressure from the White House to suppress its investigation , the FBI was starting to buckle . A protagonist of the famous FBI director Herbert Hoover , the Mr Felt was already embittered for being passed over as his replacement . When White House officials tried to block the FBI 's corruption investigation , he became infuriated with what he would call their 'switchblade mentality . ' A debonair man about town and incurable political gossip , Mr Felt was already known to Mr Woodward when he first reached out to him . Soon he was arranging cloak and dagger meetings with the young reporters in darkened parking garages across the Potomac River . The chain-smoking FBI-man provided an insight into the scale of the presidential scandal that was larger than anyone had imagined . `` Deep Throat '' , the name given to him at the Washington Post , was a wordplay based on a well known pornographic movie and his insistence on remaining on `` deep background '' despite the sensational nature of his revelations . From the outset President Nixon suspected him of being the leaker and five times ordered the FBI director Patrick Gray to fire him . Felt 's adamant denials were convincing enough and he was never sacked . Deep Throat continued to leak and on the assumption that he was being monitored he had elaborate procedures for contacting Mr Woodward . When he had information to pass on , he would arrange meetings by circling the page number on page twenty of the reporter 's copy of The New York Times and then drawing the hands of a clock to signal the hour . If Mr Woodward wanted to see him he would simply place a red flag in a flowerpot on the balcony of his P street apartment . Over the course of the scandal , Deep Throat supplied crucial information for some 400 Washington Post stories . The reporters went on to win a Pulitzer prize , journalism 's highest accolade . A master of the black arts of disinformation , at FBI headquarters he alighted on a newspaper story for which he was not the source and ordered an investigation to find the leaker . He then fingered a prosecutor as the source . Mr Woodward wrote in his 2006 expose , `` Secret Man : The Story of Watergate 's Deep Throat '' that `` The memo was an effective cover for him , the very best counterintelligence tradecraft . Not only had he initiated the leak inquiry , but Felt appeared to have discovered the leaker . '' By then Deep Throat 's real identity had already been revealed in Vanity Fair magazine . More than 30 years after Watergate and Mr Woodward confirmed the revelation , finally letting his secret out . By then Mr Felt was suffering from dementia and had little or no memory of his role in history . Though Deep Throat was a hero to the anti Vietnam War movement and the left , Mr Felt was no liberal . A law and order crime-fighter , he ran the agency 's `` goon squad '' to monitor agents in the field . He also advised Hollywood for its 1965 television series The FBI , ensuring that G-men were always shown in the most favourable light . Long after Watergate he was convicted of running his own so called `` black bag '' burglaries of the radical Weather Underground movement . He was later pardoned by President Ronald Reagan . In a 1979 book , he bragged about the FBI 's bugging of the Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King and he vehemently opposed the hiring of women agents by the FBI .
28_12ecbplus.xml_2	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	3	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	0	1	0	10	Fred LaRue	HUM16762375448415764	LaRue	['fred', 'larue', 'close', 'aide', 'attorney', 'general', 'john', 'mitchell', 'person', 'plead', 'guilty', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'natural', 'cause']	<m> Fred LaRue </m> , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 <m> Fred LaRue </m> , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_4	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	7	7	39	43	maid	HUM16762394101942113	maid	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	His body was discovered yesterday by a <m> maid </m> who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a <m> maid </m> who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_102	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	8	8	44	47	who	HUM16762394101942113	who	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid <m> who </m> entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid <m> who </m> entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_5	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	6	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .	1	2	8	21	Gary Hargrove	HUM16762387067149443	Hargrove	['coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday']	Coroner <m> Gary Hargrove </m> said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner <m> Gary Hargrove </m> said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_6	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	6	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .	7	9	44	54	Mr . LaRue	HUM16762375448415764	LaRue	['coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday']	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that <m> Mr . LaRue </m> died Saturday .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that <m> Mr . LaRue </m> died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_93	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	11	14	60	80	hotel room in Biloxi	LOC16762474499152487	Biloxi	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his <m> hotel room in Biloxi </m> .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his <m> hotel room in Biloxi </m> . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_64	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	4	4	24	33	yesterday	TIM16762465386809315	yesterday	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	His body was discovered <m> yesterday </m> by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered <m> yesterday </m> by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_65	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	6	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .	11	11	60	68	Saturday	TIM16762450584630828	Saturday	['coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday']	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died <m> Saturday </m> .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died <m> Saturday </m> . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_104	train	ent	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	0	1	0	8	His body	HUM16762375448415764	body	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	<m> His body </m> was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . <m> His body </m> was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_99	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	3	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	21	22	111	128	Watergate scandal	ACT16762238189665929	Watergate	['fred', 'larue', 'close', 'aide', 'attorney', 'general', 'john', 'mitchell', 'person', 'plead', 'guilty', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'natural', 'cause']	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the <m> Watergate scandal </m> , died of natural causes .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the <m> Watergate scandal </m> , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_34	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	3	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	26	27	139	153	natural causes	ACT16762271336158477	natural	['fred', 'larue', 'close', 'aide', 'attorney', 'general', 'john', 'mitchell', 'person', 'plead', 'guilty', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'natural', 'cause']	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of <m> natural causes </m> .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of <m> natural causes </m> . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_35	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	3	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	24	24	131	135	died	ACT16762189251591291	die	['fred', 'larue', 'close', 'aide', 'attorney', 'general', 'john', 'mitchell', 'person', 'plead', 'guilty', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'natural', 'cause']	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , <m> died </m> of natural causes .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , <m> died </m> of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_36	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	3	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	17	17	91	96	plead	10000000333	plead	['fred', 'larue', 'close', 'aide', 'attorney', 'general', 'john', 'mitchell', 'person', 'plead', 'guilty', 'watergate', 'scandal', 'die', 'natural', 'cause']	Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to <m> plead </m> guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to <m> plead </m> guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_37	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	3	3	13	23	discovered	ACT16762223878467716	discover	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	His body was <m> discovered </m> yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was <m> discovered </m> yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_38	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	5	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi .	9	9	48	55	entered	ACT16762200536905847	enter	['his', 'body', 'discover', 'yesterday', 'maid', 'enter', 'his', 'hotel', 'room', 'biloxi']	His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who <m> entered </m> his hotel room in Biloxi .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who <m> entered </m> his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .
28_12ecbplus.xml_39	train	evt	28_12ecbplus.xml	6	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he believes that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .	5	5	30	38	believes	ACT16762214923191521	believe	['coroner', 'gary', 'hargrove', 'say', 'he', 'believe', 'mr', 'larue', 'die', 'saturday']	Coroner Gary Hargrove said he <m> believes </m> that Mr . LaRue died Saturday .	http : / / www . boston . com / news / globe / obituaries / articles / 2004 / 07 / 28 / fred _ larue _ 75 _ delivered _ hush _ money _ in _ watergate / ? camp=pm Fred LaRue , 75 ; delivered 'hush' money in Watergate July 28 , 2004 Fred LaRue , a close aide to former Attorney General John Mitchell and the first person to plead guilty in the Watergate scandal , died of natural causes . He was 75 . His body was discovered yesterday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi . Coroner Gary Hargrove said he <m> believes </m> that Mr . LaRue died Saturday . Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break - in quiet . He served four months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice . Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to Mitchell , who later headed President Nixon's reelection committee . Mr . LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne , Fla . , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington was allegedly hatched . Mr . LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building , which housed Democratic Party headquarters . After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real estate holdings . He also spent much time catching shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico . A few researchers of the scandal have suggested that Mr . LaRue could have been Deep Throat . He discounted those rumors , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person , but probably a combination of several people .

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