History Today: When the whistleblower behind the Watergate scandal exposed himself. Who was ‘Deep Throat’?

History Today: When the whistleblower behind the Watergate scandal exposed himself. Who was ‘Deep Throat’?

On May 31, 2005, W Mark Felt, the former Associate Director of the US intelligence agency FBI, revealed himself as the secret source named ‘Deep Throat’ that exposed the Watergate scandal in the US. The official secretly cooperated with Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to expose the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974

More than 30 years after the Watergate scandal rocked the United States, W Mark Felt, once the Associate Director of the US intelligence agency FBI, publicly revealed in 2005 that he had been the mysterious source known as “Deep Throat.” AP