Drum roll. I guess now it can be told by Bob Woodward.
He wrote a long article in today’s Washington Post, explaining his long history with Deep Throat.
Appparently, this is a warm-up exercise for an instant book to be released soon by Mr. Woodward. Then, too Mark Felt’s little-read out-of-print autobiography, The FBI Pyramid from the Inside
will be revised and re-released with new Deep Throat information. (Amazon has a used $900 first edition that apparently has put there this week because the blurb for it mentions Deep Throat.)
Quite frankly, I feeel Mr. Felt should get my first book-buying dollar on this matter, because of the risks he took. (That puts aside that I actually like Nixon as a president. He was great on foreign policy but apparently a paranoid wacko on domestic policy. Really now, could student Vetnam protesters bring down the US government? Did they even want to do that?)
Woodward describes how he met Mark Felt so long ago that Woodward was in the Navy, a mere messenger carrying important papers to a meeting Felt attended. They somehow hit it off. Woodward realized Felt’s importance as an inside source in his future endeavors, and they kept in touch.