Now that we finally know who 'Deep Throat' is (kudos to the Felts for not letting those showoffs Woodward and Bernstein make all the money from revealing his identity after he's dead), this seems like a good a time as any to tally up the winners and losers in the "who was Deep Throat" sweepstakes.
According to DeepThroatUncovered.com, a handful of reporters and authors nailed Throat's identity as former FBI associate director W. Mark Felt, who spilled the beans on himself in this month's Vanity Fair. They are:
Ronald Kessler, author of The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI
Kessler, a former Post reporter, believes Throat was Felt because of the far-reaching intelligence powers of the FBI.
Mann believes Throat was an employee at the FBI, most probably Felt, who was fingered by Deputy White House Counsel H.R. Haldeman as a snitch in the 1972 White House tapes.
...and David Daley of the Hartford Courant, who penned a piece called "Boys' Talk Sheds Light on Shadowy Source." In tat article, Daley claims his source got the information straight from the horse's son's mouth:
Chase Culeman-Beckman said Jacob Bernstein, son of Post reporter Carl Bernstein, told him that Throat was former FBI associate director W. Mark Felt. Culeman-Beckman said Jacob Bernstein told him in 1988 when they both attended day-school camp when they were children, and that Jacob Bernstein told him that his father revealed Throat's identity to him. Carl Bernstein denies this occurrence.
I'd also add Slate's Timothy Noah (Slate is now a wholly owned WaPo property), who wrote this and this back in 2002 and 1999, respectively.
As for the losers, they include Esquire Magazine, Jim Miklaszewski of NBC (both of whom guessed David Gergen), a slew of other reporters and even a Watergate figure, H.R. Haldeman, who co-wrote a book called The Ends of Power that names deputy White House counsel to John Dean Fred Fielding as 'Throat.'
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