Deep Throat's tale revealed (3 FBI officials helped Felt leak information)

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http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=367183

Deep Throat's tale revealed
Former FBI agent says 3 FBI officials helped W. Mark Felt leak information about Watergate probe to the press

By BRENDAN LYONS, Staff writer
First published: Monday, June 6, 2005

At the height of the Watergate investigation more than three decades ago, three high-ranking FBI officials conspired with the agency's deputy director to leak information about their probe to the press.

The revelation of that collaboration by a retired FBI agent in conversations in recent days with the Times Union casts W. Mark Felt -- who admitted last week to being the media source known as Deep Throat -- not as a disgruntled maverick, as some have suggested, but rather as the leader of a clandestine group that fought White House efforts to contain the sprawling investigation.


Paul V. Daly, 64, who joined the bureau in 1965 and went on to head field offices in Albany and North Carolina, told the Times Union last week that he learned in 1978 that Felt was Deep Throat and that he had not acted alone: At least three other FBI officials helped Felt secretly disclose information about the Watergate investigation to The Washington Post.


The FBI officials met regularly in their Washington, D.C., offices to discuss what information they would reveal to fuel media interest. Their motive, according to Daly, was to counteract the Nixon White House's efforts to quash the FBI investigation of the Watergate burglary and related wrongdoing linked to the Oval Office.

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[displacedtexan]

1. Eat that, Buchananites.

The FBI officials met regularly in their Washington, D.C., offices to discuss what information they would reveal to fuel media interest. Their motive, according to Daly, was to counteract the Nixon White House's efforts to quash the FBI investigation of the Watergate burglary and related wrongdoing linked to the Oval Office.

How will the freepers spin this?

[Igel]

6. The word "conspiracy" comes to mind. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

8. I would support any conspiracy that has the intended purpose...

of preventing the downfall of the U.S.

[gumby]

2. Maybe the CIA will get a clue.

After being the "intelligence" scapegoat, agents being 'outed,' and now being cut out of NSA(?) meetings?

[leveymg]

3. Just knew that Felt wasn't acting alone. Hoover likely started this

and then he died.

Not that he wasn't a sick old man.:bounce:

[understandinglife]

4. Interesting from the John Dean perspective:

John W. Dean III, who was Nixon's White House counsel and went to prison for his role in Watergate, said he was not surprised by Daly's disclosure.

"I have been saying since Day 1 when I learned that it was Felt's identity that he could not have acted alone," Dean said in a telephone interview from his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. "He could not have done it alone, and the names you bring, Kunkel and Bates, were highly suspect always. Pat Gray had a huge problem with them."

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - We have all the evidence of mendacity and illegal war-making we need to indict and prosecute Bush, Blair and every other neoconster scum-bag on the planet having any involvement in the Bush's illegal war on Iraq and all the torture and other atrocities that have been committed since August 2002.

[sabra]

5. kind of makes sense...

[Champion Jack]

7. kicked

[Piperay]

9. Now they are all anxious

to come forward so they can get in on reaping their share of monetary rewards.x(

[sabra]

10. Do you think that's their driving motivation?

[Piperay]

11. Yes, I know I'm cynical

but that is the motivation for just about anything and everything in this country anymore. I believe they have seen that the Felt family is about to reap a bundle and figure they should get in on it too. I think if there wasn't a fortune to be made they woudn't have come forward.

[SaveAmerica]

12. I'm confused...I thought Forrest Gump was Deep Throat??