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William Mark Felt Sr. (born August 17, 1913) is a former agent and top official of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). After 30 years of denials, Felt revealed himself in May 2005 to be the Watergate scandal informant called "Deep Throat." Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's Washington headquarters. During the early investigation of the Watergate scandal (1972–74), Felt was the Bureau's Associate Director, the second-ranking post in the FBI. While Associate Dire ...

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• W. Mark Felt - After Hoover's death
• W. Mark Felt - Watergate
• W. Mark Felt - Contact with Woodward
• W. Mark Felt - Code for contacting Woodward
• W. Mark Felt - Nixon told Felt was leaking information
• W. Mark Felt - Felt denies he was source
• W. Mark Felt - Nixon passes over Felt again
• W. Mark Felt - Tried for illegal break-ins
• W. Mark Felt - Pardoned by Reagan
• W. Mark Felt - Later years
• W. Mark Felt - Family
• W. Mark Felt - Deep Throat speculation
• W. Mark Felt - Deep Throat revealed
• W. Mark Felt - Notes

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As associate director, Felt saw everything compiled on Watergate before it went to Gray. The agent in charge, Charles Nuzum, sent his findings to Investigative Division head Robert Gebhardt, who then passed the information on to Felt. From the day of the break-in, June 17, 1972, until the FBI investigation was mostly completed in June 1973, Felt was the key control point for FBI information. He had been among the first to learn of the investigation, being informed at 7:00 on the morning of June 17.^{See also:}

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For a detailed overview of speculation prior to May 31, 2005, see Deep Throat (Watergate). The identity of Deep Throat was debated for over three decades. Jack Limpert had published evidence as early as 1974 that Felt was the informant.[69] On June 25 of that year, a few weeks after All the President's Men was published, The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial, "If You Drink Scotch, Smoke, Read, Maybe You're Deep Throat". It ...

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Vanity Fair magazine revealed Felt was Deep Throat on May 31, 2005 when it published an article (eventually appearing in the July issue of the magazine) on its website by John D. O'Connor, an attorney acting on Felt's behalf, in which Felt said, "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat." After the Vanity Fair story broke, Ben Bradlee, the key editor of the Washington Post during Watergate, confirmed that Felt was Deep Throat. According to the Vanity Fair article, Felt was persuaded to come out by his family, who ...

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Ronald Reagan, who pardoned Felt and Miller. In a phone call on January 30, 1981, Edwin Meese encouraged President Ronald Reagan to issue a pardon, and after further encouragement from law enforcement officials, and former bureau agents, he did so. The pardon was given on March 26, but was not announced to the public until April 15. (The delay was partly because Reagan was shot on March 30.) Reagan wrote: Pursuant to the grant of authority in article II, section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, I have granted full and ...

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Felt published his memoir The FBI Pyramid From the Inside in 1979. It was co-written with conservative writer Ralph de Toledano, though his name appears only in the copyright notice. Toledano in 2005 wrote that the volume was "largely written by me since his original manuscript read like The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." Toledano said: Felt swore to me that he was not Deep Throat, that he had never leaked information to the Woodward-Bernstein team or anyone else. The book was published and bombed.^{See also:}

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In a phone call on January 30, 1981, Edwin Meese encouraged President Ronald Reagan to issue a pardon, and after further encouragement from law enforcement officials, and former bureau agents, he did so. The pardon was given on March 26, but was not announced to the public until April 15. (The delay was partly because Reagan was shot on March 30.) Reagan wrote: Pursuant to the grant of authority in article II, section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, I have granted full and unconditional pardons to W. Mark Felt and Ed ...

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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover liked to move Bureau agents around so they would have wide experience. Hoover, Felt observed, "wanted every agent to get into any Field office at anytime. Since he had never been transferred and did not have a family, he had no idea of the financial and personal hardship involved."[7] After completing sixteen weeks of training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia and FBI Headquarters in Washington, Felt was ...

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Hoover died in his sleep and was found on the morning of May 2, 1972. Tolson was nominally in charge until the next day when Nixon appointed loyalist L. Patrick Gray III as acting FBI director. Tolson submitted his resignation, dictated by Felt, and Gray accepted it, the acceptance also being dictated by Felt. Felt took Tolson's post as Associate Director, the number-two job in the bureau.[19] Felt served as an honorary pallbearer at Hoover's funeral.^{See also:}

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In the early 1970s, Felt oversaw a turbulent period in the FBI's history. The FBI was pursuing radicals in the Weather Underground who had planted bombs at the Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department. Felt, along with Edward S. Miller, authorized FBI agents to break into homes secretly in 1972 and 1973, without a search warrant, on nine separate occasions. These kinds of FBI burglaries were known as "black bag jobs". The break-ins occurred at five addresses in New York and New Jersey, at the homes of relatives and acquaintances of We ...

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Felt was born in Twin Falls, Idaho[1], the son of carpenter and building contractor Mark Earl Felt and his wife, the former Rose Dygert.[2] After graduating from Twin Falls High School in 1931, he received a BA from the University of Idaho in 1935, and was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He went to Washington, D.C. to work in the office of U.S. ...

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