"Deep Throat" article [Vanity Fair] News
"Deep Throat" article [Vanity Fair]

"I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat", John D. O'Connor, Vanity Fair Magazine, July 2005 [revealing Watergate's "Deep Throat" to be former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt, now 91]. Excerpt:

I believe that Mark Felt is one of America's greatest secret heroes. Deep in his psyche, it is clear to me, he still has qualms about his actions, but he also knows that historic events compelled him to behave as he did: standing up to an executive branch intent on obstructing his agency's pursuit of the truth. Felt, having long harbored the ambivalent emotions of pride and self-reproach, has lived for more than 30 years in a prison of his own making, a prison built upon his strong moral principles and his unwavering loyalty to country and cause. But now, buoyed by his family's revelations and support, he need feel imprisoned no more.

Read the full text of the article. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.