W. Felt Mark

W. Mark Felt , born the August 17th 1913, is an agent of American FBI and number two of this agency during the Scandale of Watergate. It is also known under the pseudonym of deep Gorge (“ Deep Throat ” in English), which is allotted to him during 33 years, until its real identity is known.

Biography

Agent entered with the FBI in 1942, it was affected with missions of espionage during the Second world war.

Assistant editor and candidate with the succession of his mentor J. Edgar Hoover in May 1972, it had been drawn aside by Richard Nixon with the profit of Patrick Gray, come from the ministry for Justice.

It is him which starts the scandal of Watergate in 1972, by revealing all the business with Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two journalists with the Washington Post . Woodward indicates it under the name of “ Profonde gorges; ” (allusion to the film deep Throat ). It reveals to them that Nixon made proceed to illegal phone-tappings of the seat of the Democratic party during the electoral campaign of 1972. This scandal involved the resignation of the president in 1974.

In 1980, Felt was condemned for effractions ordered within the framework of investigations against the Mafia, before being grâcié by the president Ronald Reagan.

It is only in May 2005 that its identity is revealed by the magazine American Vanity Fair and confirmed by Internet site of the Washington Post .

The name of Felt Mark formed already part of the most quoted “suspects”, with Fred Fielding, David Gergen, two former advisers of Nixon, or even George H.W. Bush former president of ETAS-Plain and father of the current president.

Among the reactions, Stalemate Buchanan, former collaborator of Nixon, estimated that “Felt had betrayed its President”. For Alexander Haig, former chief of staff of Nixon, “the departure of Nixon had been a great tragedy”, adding “If you work for a President, you must remain to him honest. If you do not like something, you resign. ”

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, on “ deep throat ” and investigations to know its identity.

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