"in Washington, D.C., including Nixon himself, it generally remained a secret for 30 years. In 2005, Felt finally acknowledged that he was Deep Throat, after being persuaded by his daughter to reveal his identity. Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's headquarters. In 1980, he was convicted of having violated the civil rights of people thought to be associated with members of the Weather Underground, by ordering FBI agents to break into their homes and search the premises as part of an attempt to prevent bombings. He was ordered to pay a fine,"
"Beyond, "" and ""In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time"". Published in 2000, the latter book supported the theory that Deep Throat was John Sears. Before Deep Throat's identity was revealed in 2005 as being former FBI Acting Associate Director W. Mark Felt, Garment himself was a suspect. Felt was listed as a possible Deep Throat in the book (as are many others), but was dismissed by Garment because the author believed the secret source had to have strong White House connections. He was mistaken in his selection of Sears, who told Garment explicitly that"
"not reveal his identity until he died or consented to reveal it. J. Anthony Lukas speculated that Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt in his book ""Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years"" (1976), based on three ""New York Times Sunday Magazine"" articles, but he was widely criticized. According to an article in ""Slate"" on April 28, 2003, Woodward had denied that Deep Throat was part of the ""intelligence community"" in a 1989 ""Playboy"" interview with Lukas. On May 31, 2005, ""Vanity Fair"" revealed that Felt was Deep Throat in an article on its website by John D. O'Connor, an"
"held that Mardian ought to have been tried separately because his lawyer, David Bress, fell ill two weeks into the trial, and because of Mardian's limited alleged role. The special prosecutor declined to retry him; in 1997 his appeal lawyer Arnold Rochvarg wrote a book outlining the legal history of the case and arguing that Mardian was innocent. After leaving his campaign position, Mardian moved to Phoenix, Arizona to join the family construction business. He retired in 2002 and remained in Phoenix, with a summer home in California. Before the May 2005 revelation that W. Mark Felt was the mysterious"
"the reporters' mysterious source long before the public acknowledgment in 2005. In February 2005, Nixon's former White House Counsel, news columnist John Dean, reported that Woodward had recently informed Bradlee that ""Deep Throat"" was ailing and that Bradlee had written Deep Throat's obituary. Both Woodward and the then-current editor of ""The Washington Post"", Leonard Downie, denied these claims. Felt was something of a suspect, especially after the mysterious meeting that occurred between Woodward and Felt in the summer of 1999. But others had received more attention over the years, such as Pat Buchanan, Henry Kissinger, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, General"
"The FBI Pyramid The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside is a 1979 non-fiction book by, W. Mark Felt. Mark Felt was the Associate Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the effective second in command to J. Edgar Hoover and subsequently L. Patrick Gray III. The book chronicles the FBI bureaucracy during the 1960s and 1970s. The book gained interest in 2005, with the revelation that Felt was ""Deep Throat"", the Watergate scandal whistleblower who assisted ""Washington Post"" reporter Bob Woodward in his and Carl Bernstein's investigation. By 2005, Felt was in declining health and unable or"
"among the notable writers included. For many years, ""Esquire"" has published its annual ""Dubious Achievement Awards"", lampooning events of the preceding year. As a running gag, the annual article almost always displayed an old photo of Richard Nixon laughing, with the caption, ""Why is this man laughing?"" However, the February 2006 ""Dubious Achievement Awards"" used the caption under a photo of W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official revealed in 2005 to be the ""Deep Throat"" Watergate source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The magazine did continue the Nixon photo in February 2007, referring to a poll stating that"
"Alexander Haig, and before it was revealed that ""Deep Throat"" was definitely not female, Diane Sawyer. On May 31, 2005, ""Vanity Fair"" reported that Felt, then aged 91, claimed to be the man once known as ""Deep Throat"". Later that day, Woodward, Bernstein, and Bradlee released a statement through ""The Washington Post"" confirming that the story was true. On June 2, 2005, ""The Washington Post"" ran a lengthy front-page column by Woodward in which he detailed his friendship with Felt in the years before Watergate. Woodward wrote that he first met Felt by chance in 1970, when Woodward was a"
"as Mark Felt, the whistleblower Deep Throat who exposed President Nixon. Diane Lane played Felt's wife, Audrey. The film was released September 29, 2017 by Sony Pictures Classics. In October 2008, Warner Bros. acquired the rights to an action thriller Colombian hostage pitch, and set Landesman to write the script of the film. In June 2011, it was reported that David O. Russell and Brad Pitt were in talks to direct and star in the film, respectively. The film about 15 hostages in the Colombian jungle was titled as ""The Mission"". In October 2013, Landesman was set to re-write and"
"for Richard Nixon, H. R. Haldeman, also concluded that Fielding was Deep Throat. That speculation ended after former top Federal Bureau of Investigation official W. Mark Felt announced in May 2005 that he was the mysterious Watergate informant, as later confirmed by Woodward, Bernstein and Executive Editor Ben Bradlee in a statement released through ""The Washington Post"". He was the Counsel to the President for President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986. Fielding served on the Tribunal on the U.S.-UK Air Treaty Dispute (1989–1994), George H.W. Bush's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform (1989) and Secretary of Transportation Rodney E."
"many articles pointing to him as the possible identity of Deep Throat, Bob Woodward's confidential source in the Executive Branch. Woodward's source was conclusively identified in 2005 as being Mark Felt, the second-in-command at the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the investigation into the Watergate scandal. Clawson died in New Orleans at the age of 63 on December 18, 1999. He was survived by his wife Carol, three living children, his mother and sister, along with six grandchildren. He had suffered from poor health following a stroke in 1975, the year after he left the White House. Ken W. Clawson"
"Relying heavily upon anonymous sources, ""Post"" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered information suggesting that knowledge of the break-in, and attempts to cover it up, led deeply into the upper reaches of the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and the White House. Woodward and Bernstein interviewed Judy Hoback Miller, the bookkeeper for Nixon, who revealed to them information about the mishandling of funds and records being destroyed. Chief among the ""Post's"" anonymous sources was an individual whom Woodward and Bernstein had nicknamed Deep Throat; 33 years later, in 2005, the informant was identified as William Mark Felt, Sr., deputy director"
"and how the scandal unfolded, going behind the scenes of the film. It explores how the Watergate scandal would be covered in the present day, whether such a scandal could happen again, and who Richard Nixon was as a man. W. Mark Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI during the early 1970s, revealed in 2005 his role as Deep Throat during the investigation; this is also covered. Footage from the film is used, as well as interviews with central characters and actors such as Woodward, Bernstein, Redford, Hoffman, Bradlee and John Dean and also with contemporary media figures such as"
"Deep Throat, that he had never leaked information to the Woodward-Bernstein team or anyone else. The book was published and bombed."" The FBI Pyramid The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside is a 1979 non-fiction book by, W. Mark Felt. Mark Felt was the Associate Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the effective second in command to J. Edgar Hoover and subsequently L. Patrick Gray III. The book chronicles the FBI bureaucracy during the 1960s and 1970s. The book gained interest in 2005, with the revelation that Felt was ""Deep Throat"", the Watergate scandal whistleblower who assisted"
"On April 1, 1990, a man claiming to be Webb called John Walsh but when asked questions to confirm his identity, was unable to name two of Webb's closest relatives. The call was dismissed as an April Fools' joke. The murder case was featured in an episode of ""Unsolved Mysteries"". After more than 18 years on the list, on September 14, 1999, Webb was noted as the fugitive with the longest tenure on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, surpassing the previous record held by Charles Lee Herron. In April 2005, an unidentified man in Detroit was found using Webb's"
"a source for the reporters. In 2005 it was revealed that FBI deputy director Mark Felt was the ""Deep Throat"" informant who had became Woodward's key source after his partner Carl Bernstein was able to locate hush money paid to the DNC burglars in Miami, Florida. ""The Washington Post"" described ""Silent Coup"" as one of ""the most boring conspiracy books ever written,"" filled with ""wild charges and vilifications."" The ""New York Times Book Review"" attacked ""Silent Coup""'s argument that Nixon was ""an innocent victim"" and said it showed ""a stunning ignorance of how the Government under Mr. Nixon operated."" In"
"discovered skeletal human remains in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales. Media reports at first linked the killing to serial killer Ivan Milat and the backpacker murders, but later forensic examination found the remains had been left there many years after Milat was jailed in 1996 for the seven murders in the forest. In a 2010 appeal for information, police called the woman ""Angel"" after the motif on a T-shirt she was wearing. On 21 October 2015, the bones were identified as the body of Pearce-Stevenson, aged 20, from Alice Springs. On 15 July 2015, the remains of"
"Deep Throat (Watergate) Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein. Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for ""The Washington Post"", and Deep Throat provided key details about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. Felt was suffering from dementia at the time and"
"practice in Connecticut. After his time in Washington, Gray returned to practicing law at the firm of Suisman, Shapiro, Wool, Brennan, Gray & Greenberg (SSWBGG) in New London, Connecticut. Deputy Director Mark Felt claimed to be Deep Throat in a 2005 ""Vanity Fair"" article, the infamous source of leaks to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Woodward, Bernstein, and ""Post"" executive editor Benjamin C. Bradlee confirmed the claim. Gray spoke about the Watergate scandal for the first time in 32 years on June 26, 2005, mere days before his death from pancreatic cancer. He told ABC's ""This Week"" that he was"
"reasons. Other commentators, however, have speculated that Felt may have had more personal reasons for leaking information to Woodward. In his book ""The Secret Man"", Woodward describes Felt as a loyalist and admirer of J. Edgar Hoover. After Hoover's death, Felt became angry and disgusted when L. Patrick Gray, a career naval officer and lawyer from the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, with no prior law enforcement experience, was appointed Director of the FBI over Felt, a 30-year veteran of the Bureau. Felt was particularly unhappy with Gray's management style at the FBI, which was markedly different from"
"much of The Post’s Watergate coverage. According to Bob Woodward's 2005 book ""The Secret Man"", Downie was one of the few people to know the true identity of Watergate scandal informant Deep Throat before it was revealed to be Mark Felt. Downie was named London correspondent in 1979 and worked in this capacity until mid-1982, covering the rise of Margaret Thatcher, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and the Falklands War. He returned to Washington in 1982 as National Editor. He became Managing Editor in 1984. He became Executive Editor in 1991,"
"modern U.S. Politics. He came to the conclusion that Fred F. Fielding, a former senior partner at Wiley Rein LLP (then Wiley Rein & Fielding), a Washington, D.C. law firm, was Deep Throat. At the time of the Watergate scandal, Fielding was Associate Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1972, where he was the deputy to John Dean during the Watergate scandal. On May 31, 2005, the actual Deep Throat, W. Mark Felt, acknowledged his identity in an article in ""Vanity Fair"", exonerating Fielding. On his website, Deep Throat Uncovered, Gaines has written about a confrontation with John"
"but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal. Felt published two memoirs: ""The FBI Pyramid"" in 1979 (updated in 2006), and ""A G-Man's Life"", written with John O'Connor, in 2006. In 2012, the FBI released Felt's personnel file, covering the period from 1941 to 1978. It also released files pertaining to an extortion threat made against Felt in 1956. Born on August 17, 1913, in Twin Falls, Idaho, Felt was the son of Rose R. Dygert and Mark Earl Felt, a carpenter and building contractor. His paternal grandfather was a Free Will Baptist minister. His maternal grandparents were"
"exact location of the hole was unspecified, yet several people claimed to have seen it, such as Gerald R. Osborne, who used the ceremonial name Red Elk, who described himself as an ""intertribal medicine man...half-breed Native American / white"", and who told reporters in 2012 he visited the hole many times since 1961 and claimed the US government maintained a top secret base there where ""alien activity"" occurs. But in 2002, Osborne was unable to find the hole on an expedition of 30 people he was leading. Local news reporters who investigated the claims found no public records of anyone"
"wanted to create the perception that Gray ""could not control the FBI"". This could result in Nixon's firing Gray, leaving Felt as the obvious choice to run the agency. Holland said this plan (if it was one) backfired as Nixon and his team found out that Felt was the leaker. Felt died at home, in his sleep, on December 18, 2008. He was 95 years old and his death was attributed to heart failure. Mark Felt William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent and Associate Director, the"
"and keys found stowed at Haarmann's apartment were identified as belonging to a missing 18-year-old named Robert Witzel. A skull which had been found in a garden on 20 May (which was not initially connected with later skeletal discoveries) was identified as that of the missing youth. A friend of Witzel identified a police officer seen in the company of the youth the day prior to his disappearance as Haarmann. Confronted with this evidence, Haarmann briefly attempted to bluster his way out of these latest and most damning pieces of evidence. When Witzel's jacket was found in the possession of"
"recalled being medically examined by alien creatures. Alan Godfrey Alan Godfrey is a retired police constable of the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police Force who claims to have seen an unidentified flying object and been the victim of an alien abduction. While checking reports of cattle wandering around a local council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 28 November 1980, Godfrey claims he saw a bright light in the road ahead that he described as a hovering, rotating object. According to Godfrey, he experienced missing time of approximately twenty-five minutes, a split boot, and an itchy, red mark on his foot."
"in 1983— in which a man identifying himself as USAF Sergeant Richard C. Doty contacted investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe claiming to be able to supply her Air Force records of the exchange for her HBO documentary ""The ET Factor"" only to pull out without providing any evidence to substantiate his story— and one incident in 2005 when a series of emails were sent to a UFO discussion group run by Victor Martinez claiming that the project was real. Some variations on the conspiracy story state that the name Serpo is the nickname of the extrasolar planet. Other versions state"
"in ""total shock, total disbelief"" when asked about Felt's claim. ""It was like I was hit with a tremendous sledgehammer."" Gray died on July 6, 2005. He was working on his memoirs with his son Edward Gray, using his extensive and never-released personal Watergate files. His son finished the book ""In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate"", which disputes the claim that Felt was Deep Throat, citing Woodward's own notes and other evidence as proof that Deep Throat was a fictional composite made up of several Woodward sources, only one of whom was Felt. In 2009, Bob"
"informant ""Deep Throat"" prior to the disclosure in 2005. He told ""The Hartford Courant"" in 1995, ""I think it was a guy named Mark Felt."" Butterfield is a major source for Bob Woodward's 2015 book ""The Last of the President's Men"". Butterfield retained an extensive number of records when he left the White House, some of them historically important, including the ""zilch"" memo, which helped form part of the basis for the book. Butterfield married Charlotte Maguire in 1949. They divorced in 1985. Butterfield moved to La Jolla, California, in 1992, where he was a close friend of (and sometimes"
"on September 8, and was theatrically released on September 29, 2017, by Sony Pictures Classics. An untitled project about FBI agent Mark Felt, known as Deep Throat, who was an informant for reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was announced on January 24, 2006, written by Peter Landesman. The film was to be directed by Jay Roach for Universal Pictures and Playtone, and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman were attached as producers. On November 3, 2015, it was announced that Landesman would direct ""Felt"" himself, based on his script. Liam Neeson was cast in the title role. MadRiver Pictures financed"
"that Adamski had spoken to extraterrestrials in a California desert in 1952, and that a group of highly placed government officials planned on public corroboration of Adamski's story. Adamski was proud of this endorsement and exhibited it to support his claims. However, in 1985 ufologist James W. Moseley revealed that the letter was a hoax. Moseley said he and his friend Gray Barker had obtained some official State Department letterheads, created the R.E. Straith persona, and then written the letter to Adamski as a prank. According to Moseley, the FBI investigated the case and discovered that the letter was a"
"Alan Godfrey Alan Godfrey is a retired police constable of the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police Force who claims to have seen an unidentified flying object and been the victim of an alien abduction. While checking reports of cattle wandering around a local council estate in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, on 28 November 1980, Godfrey claims he saw a bright light in the road ahead that he described as a hovering, rotating object. According to Godfrey, he experienced missing time of approximately twenty-five minutes, a split boot, and an itchy, red mark on his foot. Godfrey says that via hypnotic regression, he"