![]() ![]() In The Secret Man, Bob Woodward describes how he first met Mark Felt in a White House waiting room in 1969. Woodward, "which is the period we live in after 9-11, for reporters to be able to have a confidential source like that, somebody who really knows what's going on in the center of things, that's vital." "In a time of security and surveillance," said Mr. He told NBC News that he could finally tell "the very complicated three-decade story that involved lots of uncertainty and anguish." And he suggested that the story has contemporary relevance as well. Once the secret was out, he rushed into publication the book he had been holding back for years. But for more than 30 years, Bob Woodward stuck to his vow to reveal Deep Throat's identity only after his death. ![]() He also appeared in the movie version of the book, portrayed by Hal Holbrook as an unnamed figure wrapped in shadows. Woodward offers his perspective on that relationship in a new book called The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat.īob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote about Deep Throat in their 1974 book about Watergate, called All the President's Men. Felt's help, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigated the cover-up of illegal campaign activities that led President Richard Nixon to resign from office in 1974. ![]() Mark Felt announced that he was Deep Throat, the celebrated anonymous source for a newspaper series covering the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s. A long-time Washington guessing game ended in May. ![]()
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