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Article: FELT'S 'GOING PUBLIC' SURPRISED WOODWARD.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2005
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Byline: Howard Kurtz Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- How, after 33 years of secrecy, did the Washington Post get scooped on its own story about the tantalizing mystery of Deep Throat?
The answer is that Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Ben Bradlee felt they were in a box -- the promise of confidentiality made to W. Mark Felt during the Nixon administration -- and were not convinced that the 91-year-old former FBI agent was lucid enough to release them from that pledge.
Family members "have said he just doesn't have any memory now," Woodward said Wednesday, referring to e-mails he received from Felt's relatives. The dilemma, said Woodward, ...