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Deep Throat - the plot thickens
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as the years rolled by, Nixon ruled out Peterson and everyone else at Justice and FBI because they could not possibly have had access to what was perhaps Deep Throat’s greatest revelation.
This was the story in the Washington Post of November 8, 1973 saying that a crucial White House tape of June 20, 1972 featuring Nixon and his chief of staff, H R Halderman, had been “doctored” and that the problems on the tape were of a “suspicious nature”.
Deep Throat told Bob Woodward that this tape contained “deliberate erasures”. This was the sensational story of the 18-and-a-half minute gap on the tape. It remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of Watergate because it contains the probable identity of Deep Throat.
When Deep Throat leaked the information about “deliberate erasures” to Woodward at some time in the first week of November 1973 only six people in the White House, or for that matter in the world, knew about the problem of the gap in the tape. They were Richard Nixon; Rose Mary Woods (Nixon’s personal secretary); Alexander Haig (The White House chief of staff); Haig’s deputy, Major General John C Bennett and two trusted Nixon White House aides, Fred Buzhardt and Steve Bull.
There is the strongest possible presumption that Deep Throat was one of the names on the list, at least in regard to the story of the 18-and-a-half minute deliberately erased tape gap.
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The answer to the conundrum is the one Richard Nixon came up with 20 years ago. It is the one supported by virtually all of Nixon’s surviving senior White House aides.
The explanation is that there is no such individual as Deep Throat - the character is a composite of two or three, possibly more, sources used by Woodward and Bernstein.
Mark Felt may well have been the prime figure in this composite. Or maybe he was just one of several Deep Throats in the mixture.
So the mystery continues on the vital question of which Deep Throat leaked the revelation about the 18-and-a-half minute gap, a revelation that Woodward says came from the source he likes to call Deep Throat.
Richard Nixon would have enjoyed all this latest wave of controversy, seen through it and laughed.
Excerpt:
as the years rolled by, Nixon ruled out Peterson and everyone else at Justice and FBI because they could not possibly have had access to what was perhaps Deep Throat’s greatest revelation.
This was the story in the Washington Post of November 8, 1973 saying that a crucial White House tape of June 20, 1972 featuring Nixon and his chief of staff, H R Halderman, had been “doctored” and that the problems on the tape were of a “suspicious nature”.
Deep Throat told Bob Woodward that this tape contained “deliberate erasures”. This was the sensational story of the 18-and-a-half minute gap on the tape. It remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of Watergate because it contains the probable identity of Deep Throat.
When Deep Throat leaked the information about “deliberate erasures” to Woodward at some time in the first week of November 1973 only six people in the White House, or for that matter in the world, knew about the problem of the gap in the tape. They were Richard Nixon; Rose Mary Woods (Nixon’s personal secretary); Alexander Haig (The White House chief of staff); Haig’s deputy, Major General John C Bennett and two trusted Nixon White House aides, Fred Buzhardt and Steve Bull.
There is the strongest possible presumption that Deep Throat was one of the names on the list, at least in regard to the story of the 18-and-a-half minute deliberately erased tape gap.
. . . . .
The answer to the conundrum is the one Richard Nixon came up with 20 years ago. It is the one supported by virtually all of Nixon’s surviving senior White House aides.
The explanation is that there is no such individual as Deep Throat - the character is a composite of two or three, possibly more, sources used by Woodward and Bernstein.
Mark Felt may well have been the prime figure in this composite. Or maybe he was just one of several Deep Throats in the mixture.
So the mystery continues on the vital question of which Deep Throat leaked the revelation about the 18-and-a-half minute gap, a revelation that Woodward says came from the source he likes to call Deep Throat.
Richard Nixon would have enjoyed all this latest wave of controversy, seen through it and laughed.