Deep Throat led FBI probe into source of leaks

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.

Combing through originally confidential FBI files now available to the public, The Nation magazine reporters David Corn and Jeff Goldberg found documents that showed Mr Felt was in charge of finding the source of Bob Woodward’s and Carl Bernstein’s Washington Post scoops that helped bring down President Richard Nixon.

How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI, which shows how Mr Felt threw the federal agency off his trail, will hit newsstands on June 23 and was posted on the magazine’s website on Monday.