The Secret Man¶
Woodward. (2006). The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. Simon and Schuster.
Cited by¶
3 citations across 3 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Domain-specific¶
- Anonymous Sourcing
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's most sensitive information came from a source they called "Deep Throat" — revealed only in 2005 to be Mark Felt, then the FBI's second-in-command
Supported in partVerified against a saved copy of the source
“But since Felt was called Deep Throat at the Post, we called him Deep Throat in the book”
- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's most sensitive information came from a source they called "Deep Throat" — revealed only in 2005 to be Mark Felt, then the FBI's second-in-command
- Off the Record
- Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward had known a senior FBI source since a chance meeting in 1970, and during the Watergate investigation (1972–74) that source — revealed in 2005 to be Associate Director Mark Felt — became the contact the reporters nicknamed "Deep Throat."
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- Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward had known a senior FBI source since a chance meeting in 1970, and during the Watergate investigation (1972–74) that source — revealed in 2005 to be Associate Director Mark Felt — became the contact the reporters nicknamed "Deep Throat."
- Original Reporting
- Rather than re-processing the government's public statements — which uniformly denied White House involvement in the Democratic National Committee break-in — the two reporters generated new primary evidence: interviews with campaign and administration staff, financial records tracing the burglars' funding to the Committee to Re-elect the President, and the confidential source later revealed as FBI official Mark Felt ("Deep Throat").
This sourceWoodward's account identifying the Watergate confidential source Deep Throat as FBI official W. Mark Felt.
Supported in partVerified against a saved copy of the source
“story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt”
- Rather than re-processing the government's public statements — which uniformly denied White House involvement in the Democratic National Committee break-in — the two reporters generated new primary evidence: interviews with campaign and administration staff, financial records tracing the burglars' funding to the Committee to Re-elect the President, and the confidential source later revealed as FBI official Mark Felt ("Deep Throat").
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