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‘Deep Throat’ Identity Revealed
FBI official
was source on
Nixon crimes
( A P) - T he W a sh in g to n Post
sa id T u e sd a y th a t a fo rm e r
FB I o ffic ia l, W . M ark F elt,
w as th e c o n fid e n tia l so u rc e
kn o w n as “ D eep T h ro a t” w ho
p ro v id ed the n e w sp a p e r in fo r­
m atio n that led to P resid en t
N ix o n ’s im p each m en t in v e sti­
g atio n and e v e n tu a l re sig n a ­
tion.
T h e p a p e r m a d e its a n ­
no u n cem en t a fte r Felt, 91 and
liv in g in C a lifo rn ia , ta lk e d to a
law y er w ho w rote a m agazine
a rtic le for V anity Fair.
Felt, the second-in-com m and
at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept
his secret even from his family
for alm ost three decades before
confiding he was Post reporter
Bob W oodw ard’s source on the
W atergate scandal, according to
a V anity Fair article published
T uesday.
“ I ’m the guy they used to
c a ll D e e p T h r o a t,” he w as
q u o te d as telling law yer John
D. O 'C o n n o r , a u th o r o f the
m ag azin e article.
T h e e x is te n c e o f D e e p
T h ro at, n icknam ed fo r an X-
rated m o v ie o f the early 1970s,
IV. Mark Felt appears on CBS' Face the Nation ’ on Aug. 30,1976.
w as rev ealed in W oodw ard and
B e rn ste in ’s b e st-se llin g book
“ All the P re sid e n t’s M en.”
The identity o f the source has
sparked endless speculation over
the last three decades. Nixon chief
o f staff A lexander Haig, W hite
H ouse press aide Diane Saw yer,
W hite House counsel John Dean
and speechw riter Pat Buchanan
w ere am ong those m entioned
as possibilities.
Felt h im se lf w as m entioned
sev eral tim es o v e r the years
as a c a n d id a te fo r D eep
T h ro at, but he reg u larly d e ­
nied that he w as the source.
W o odw ard, w ho had v is­
ited w ith Felt as recen tly as
1999, re fu se d to co nfirm or
deny, even to the m a n ’s fam ­
ily, th at Felt w as his source,
and w o n d ered w h eth er Felt
w as m en ta lly c o m p e te n t to
decid e w h e th e r to go public
after all th ese years, the m a g a ­
zine rep orted.
New Emphasis on Black Voters Urged by Democrats
Dean promises
changes in
election strategy
(AP) - Howard Dean says black
voters are upset with the Demo­
cratic Party for coming around just
weeks before elections seeking their
votes.
The new Democratic Party chair­
man and former presidential candi­
date said taking black voters for
granted is a long-standing problem
Ilie P o r t l a n d
for the party that dates to the 1960s
and that he promises changes in
strategy.
“ A frican-A m ericans are an­
noyed with the Democratic Party
because we ask them for their votes
four weeks before the election in­
stead o f being in the community
now and that’s a mistake I’m trying
to fix,” he said. "There’s a new
generation of African-American
leaders and a new generation of
African-Americans. We can’t go
out and say could you vote for us
because we were so helpful during
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Day. "W e’re going to treat every
vote as a swing vote,” he said.
During the 2004 presidential
race, Dean angered many blacks
when he said he wanted “to be the
candidate for the guys with Con­
federate flags on their pickup
trucks.” He later apologized and
called the flag a “painful symbol”
to blacks
During one Democratic debate,
rival Al Sharpton criticized Dean,
the former Vermont governor, for
having had a Cabinet with no
blacks.
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Marking 100 days as the party’s
b o ss. D ean has p u sh e d to
strengthen the party in heavily
Republican states and to improve
the party's outreach to women,
Hispanics and black voters. In the
last presidential election. Bush fared
better than previous Republican
candidates with several traditional
Democratic voting blocs.
Dean said he was not concerned
that there might be a major erosion in
the black vote but was worried about
people staying home on Election
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Boy Scouts Inflate Members
(AP) - An independent investi­
gation of the A tlanta-area Boy
Scouts found that the organization
inflated its number of black Scouts
by more than 5,000 in a program for
inner-city youth.
The executive director of the
Atlanta Boy Scouts resigned after
the report was released.
A uditors said scout officials
assigned to inner-city areas may
have felt pressure to demonstrate
membership growth, which is a part
of their performance evaluations.
M embership numbers also are
used to help determined funding
from the United Way, a major
scouts donor.
The audit found that former
Scouts too old to participate re­
mained on the memberships lists
and that boys who had only at­
tended informational meetings
about the program were signed
up. The numbers also included
200 scout units that did not exist.
Iraq
Governor
Found
Dead
Insurgency
kills 760 in
recent weeks
(AP) - The kidnapped governor
o f volatile Anbar province was
found dead after a tierce battle be­
tween U.S. forces and foreign fight­
ers, a government spokesman said
Tuesday.
The insurgency, which is be­
lieved to be strongly backed by
radical Sunni extremists, has killed
more than 760 people in the past
month.
The body o f the governor of
Anbar province, RajaNawafFarhan
al-Mahalawi, was found Sunday in
Rawah, about 175 miles northwest
o f B aghdad, said governm ent
spokesman Laith Kuba.
A l-M ahalaw i, w ho w as a b ­
ducted May 10 near Qaim, a town
near the Syrian border, was killed
by rubble that fell when the house
where he was held became the fo­
cus of the gunbattle between U.S.
forces and foreign fighters, Kuba
said.
T he c o n firm a tio n o f al-
M ahalawi’s death ended a linger­
ing mystery surrounding his where­
abouts. Relatives and a govern­
ment official said May 15 that al-
M ahalaw i’s kidnappers released
him, but U.S. military officials main­
tained he had not been seen until
his body was discovered Sunday.
Kuba said al-Mahalawi had never
been released, but instead had been
handed from one terrorist cell to
another.
Meanwhile, Vice President Dick
Cheney predicted over the M emo­
rial Day holiday that fighting in Iraq
will end before the Bush adminis­
tration leaves office in 2009.