deep throat is alive and living in santa rosa

The biggest leaker of all time, the man called “Deep Throat” by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in their reports in the Washington Post, has opted to go public with his identity.

Over the years, lots of effort has been poured into trying to figure out who Deep Throat was, most notably that of the University of Illinois School of Journalism, which determined that Fred Fielding was Deep Throat. But today, Vanity Fair has an exclusive article revealing that W. Mark Felt, former number two guy at the FBI, was Bernstein and Woodward’s source for those exclusive articles about Watergate that eventually spelled the end for the paranoid Nixon Whitehouse, and which catapulted the Washington Post onto the national scene.

Via Hilstah