- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWilliam Mark Felt
- Nickname
- Deepthroat
- Mark Felt grew up in a modest Idaho home. He graduated from the University of Idaho and attended George Washington University Law School. Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked his way up to become assistant director to J. Edgar Hoover in 1965, succeeding to the No. 2 position of Associate Director upon Hoover's death. In 1972, after a break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex, the FBI began investigating the White House for potential cover-up and surveillance activities. Two reporters at the Washington Post, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, pieced together the Watergate conspiracy with the help of an anonymous informant named 'Deep Throat.' Their reporting eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, and the indictment of over two dozen people in the Nixon administration. Woodward and Bernstein, however, kept Deep Throat's identity a closely-guarded secret.
For three decades, the identity of Deep Throat was modern journalism's greatest unsolved mystery. Dozens of books speculated on Deep Throat's identity, and a long list of names was guessed over the years. As for Felt, he retired from the FBI and moved to northern California. Though he had originally planned for his secret identity to be revealed only after his death, he came forward at his family's urging on May 31, 2005 in a Vanity Fair article. Felt revealed, at the age of 91, that he was the infamous Deep Throat.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseAudrey Isabel Robinson(June 15, 1938 - July 20, 1984) (her death, 2 children)
- Informant "Deep Throat" in Watergate Scandal, unknown for more than 30 years.
- Is referenced in the film Dick (1999), but only by his alias, since Felt's identity as Deepthroat still remained a mystery when the film was released (film was released in 1999, six years before his identity was finally revealed and confirmed)
- The writers of The Simpsons (1989) make reference to Felt (aka "Deepthroat") in the episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts," (Sixth Season; episode 2F02 ) where a mysterious figure is providing information (hence, a whistle-blower) about electoral fraud regarding the election of Sideshow Bob to Lisa and Bart Simpson. It is discovered soon after a brief meeting that the whistle-blower is in fact Waylon Smithers, who is providing information only because he disagrees with Sideshow Bob's views on his "lifestyle"
- Former F.B.I.-Agent.
- The LA Times Obit for Mr. Felt states that he was an unpaid consultant to the television series "The FBI." from 1965 to 1974.
- "I am not Deep Throat, and the only thing I can say is that I wouldn't be ashamed to be, because I think whoever [it was] helped the country, no question about it." (to the New York Times, 29 August 1976)
- "I guess people used to think Deep Throat was a criminal, but now they think he's a hero." (2005)
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