THE former FBI chief admitted he was “shocked” and “deeply hurt” when he discovered that his second-in-command had been the famed Watergate source known as Deep Throat who helped impeach President Nixon.

The man who recently revealed himself as “Deep Throat", the key source for the Washington Post during the investigation of the Watergate government scandal, has agreed to a book and movie deal about his life, his publisher and agent confirmed today.

MARK FELT, the former FBI official who unmasked himself as the legendary Deep Throat source who leaked Watergate secrets, twice led FBI probes into finding Deep Throat.

LATE on Tuesday of last week I got in to Dallas for the first time since I left there in 1973.

Jim Caldwell sheds some light on the man of mystery who helped bring down a president

Victoria Ward, New York

Former top FBI official Mark Felt was branded an American hero by his family after unmasking himself as the Deep Throat source who helped bring down President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

The family of the former top FBI official who claims he was the notorious Deep Throat source in the Watergate scandal tonight praised him as a hero and urged the United States to respect and honour his actions.

RON ZIEGLER, the press secretary who famously called the Watergate break-in a third-rate burglary and was the voice of the Nixon administration during the biggest political scandal in American history, has died of a heart attack. He was 63.