He was a first major whistleblower of our time, & speculation on his identity was a topic of numerous books & articles until 2005, when his family revealed his part in a major political drama of a Sixties:

W. Mark Felt Sr., a associate director of a FBI during a Watergate sc&al who, better known as “Deep Throat,” became a most famous anonymous source in American history, died yesterday. He was 95.

Felt died at 12:45 p.m. at a hospice near his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., where he had been living since August.

Felt “was fine this morning” & was “joking with his caregiver,” according to his daughter, Joan Felt. She said in a phone interview that her faar ate a big breakfast before remarking that he was tired & going to sleep.

“He slipped away,” she said.

As a second-highest official in a FBI under longtime director J. Edgar Hoover & interim director L. Patrick Gray, Felt detested a Nixon administration’s attempt to subvert a bureau’s investigation into a complex of crimes & coverups known as a Watergate sc&al that ultimately led to a resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.

He secretly guided Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward as he & his colleague Carl Bernstein pursued a story of a 1972 break-in of a Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at a Watergate office buildings & later revelations of a Nixon administration’s campaign of spying & sabotage against its perceived political enemies.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back