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Mark Felt, better known as Deep Throat — the mysterious FBI source behind the exposure of the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon — has died at the age of Felt died yesterday of congestive heart failure in Santa Rosa, California, after several months of failing health. He secretly guided the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who with colleague Carl Bernstein pursued the story of the break-in at the Democratic national committee's headquarters at the Watergate office building. Felt was instrumental in their revelations of the Nixon presidential administration's campaign of spying and sabotage against its political adversaries. His death comes three years after he finally admitted to being Deep Throat, ending years of speculation as to the identity of the high-level source.

Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in to Bob Woodward , who shared it with Carl Bernstein. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim. According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles that introduced the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public. Haldeman , G. The film based on the book was released two years later; having been nominated for eight Academy Awards , it won four. Howard Simons was the managing editor of the Post during Watergate.

Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Nixon — who denied involvement or knowledge of the incident — then participated in an extensive cover-up. Gordon Liddy connived the Watergate break-in.

After 36 years as a full-time reporter at the Chicago Tribune , I retired in to teach journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This movie is based on the book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post in for their stories about the political scandal known as Watergate. The film, starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, accurately portrays how investigative reporters comport themselves, ask questions, conduct interviews, even the unobtrusive way they hold a notebook.