He Could Be The Guy Next Door
Peter e-mails to report confirmation of a brush with fame a long time in coming:
Our former neighbor acknowledges what we have assumed for years. We lived at Watergate At Landmark (307 Yoakum Parkway) in the west end of Alexandria, VA from 1978 to 89. Mark Felt lived two doors up the hall from us (on the 17th floor). He never implied that he was Deep Throat, but he was the acting deputy director of the FBI during the Watergate break-in (not related to the name of our large condo in Alexandria). As I remember, L. Patrick Gray was the acting FBI director at that time. Mark was typical of tens of thousands of faceless bureaucrats in Washington, DC, he was faceless and would go without notice as anyone of importance.
Here's the story from MSNBC:
W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the "Deep Throat" source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon's resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.
"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told John D. O'Connor, the author of Vanity Fair's exclusive that appears in its July issue.
Felt, now 91 and living in Santa Rosa, Calif., reportedly gave O'Connor permission to disclose his identity.
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