Deep Throat (Watergate)

Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided key details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal to reporter Bob Woodward in 1972, which was later shared with Carl Bernstein. At the time, Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for The Washington Post. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, Mark Felt – who at the time had been Deputy Director of the FBI – revealed through an attorney that he was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim.