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Article: Deep Throat revealed.(Editorials)(Former FBI official was Post's mystery source)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Byline: The Register-Guard
Some mysteries are better left unsolved, and the fertile imaginings of humankind are sometimes better left unfettered. The construction of the great pyramids, the voracity of the Bermuda Triangle, the true identity of William Shakespeare - the power of such mysteries flows from the deep currents of uncertainty that run through them.
So it is with the mystery of "Deep Throat," the source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Nixon administration's involvement in Watergate. Since the early 1970s, the identity of the Post's background source remained the best-kept and most compelling ...