Deep Throat Goes Deep Six
Mark Felt -- aka Deep Throat, aka The Man Behind the Green Door, aka Cum Dumpsters 13 -- has gone off to that Great Bureaucracy in the Sky...
Felt, 95, suffered from congestive heart failure but the immediate cause of death was not known Thursday night.
"He was an important person for the history of our nation, but also such a gem and such a treasure to our family," said his grandson, Nick Jones, who confirmed the death. "He was a great man."
An FBI agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, not to mention a Fed, Felt was instrumental in toppling Richard Nixon, by his hard work of standing in darkened parking lots and speaking cryptically in a gravelly voice while chain-smoking. Or, so I've been led to believe...
As associate director, Felt was one of the first to learn about the 1972 burglary of Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex and to realize its connection to President Richard Nixon’s campaign for reelection.
Days after the break-in, Nixon and White House staff talked about putting pressure on the FBI to slow down the investigation. Fearing that the investigation would be sabotaged and justice subverted, Felt began giving information to Woodward, whom he had known for several years...
"He would not have done it if he didn’t feel it was the only way to get around the corruption in the White House and Justice Department," Felt’s grandson, Mark Felt Jr., told Vanity Fair magazine in 2005. "He was tortured inside, but never would show it."
The greatest torture, no doubt, was watching fucking Hal Holbrook portray him in the film All the President's Men.
Really? Hal Holbrook? As a shadowy whistle-blowing FBI double-agent? C'Mon? What, was Anthony Perkin's unavailable? Was Paul Lynde all booked up?
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