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Q: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate ( Answered 4 out of 5 stars,   4 Comments )
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Subject: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: rhd123-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 27 Dec 2004 22:12 PST
Expires: 26 Jan 2005 22:12 PST
Question ID: 448035
Who are the top five people most suspected to be Bob Woodward's
source,code named "Deep Throat"?
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Subject: Re: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate
Answered By: markj-ga on 28 Dec 2004 06:59 PST
Rated:4 out of 5 stars
 
rhd123 --

As you undoubtedly know, there has been much speculation over the
years since Woodward and Bernstein wrote "All the President's Men,"
and the list of possible candidates is long.

Under the circumstances, the most useful way to approach your question
is to focus on a systematic four-year study of the question conducted
by journalism students at the University of Illinois under the
direction of a respected former investigative reporter at the Chicago
Tribune, Bill Gaines. That study was published in 2003 and is
described in detail and downloadable in full at this site:

Who is Deep Throat?
http://deepthroatuncovered.com/story/

As the study progressed, the professor and his students came up with
seven finalists as the most likely suspects and then concluded that
Fred Fielding, who was the assistant to Nixon's White House Counsel,
John Dean, was Deep Throat.

Here is the list of the seven finalists for "Deep Throat,"  which,
given the care and thoroughness of the study, qualifies as the best
short list of those most likely to have earned that title:


Fred Fielding, an attorney and assistant to White House chief legal
counsel John Dean.

Patrick Buchanan, speechwriter and special assistant to Nixon and
later a newspaper columnist and presidential candidate;

Stephen Bull, a personal aide to Nixon; 

David Gergen, White House speechwriter; 

Raymond Price, White House speechwriter; 

Jonathan Rose, attorney for regulatory affairs; 

Gerald Warren, deputy press secretary.


Given your interest in this subject, I think you will this
"user-friendly" website to be a useful and fascinating source of
information about the four-year investigation and about the Watergate
scandal in general.



Additional Information:

This recent article by an investigatory journalist names L. Patrick
Gray, Mark Felt and Alexander Haig as additional "leading suspects:"

American Journalism Review: Who is Deep Throat? Does It Matter?, by Mark Feldstein 
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3736


This Smithsonian Magazine article by Professor Bill Gaines gives a
good brief summary of the University of Illinois study:

Smithsonian Magazine: Who Was Deep Throat? (December 2003)
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues03/dec03/presence.html

This June 2002 article from CNN.com (written before the conclusion of
the U. of Illinois study) adds two FBI executives (Charles Bates and
Robert Kunkel) to the list of likely suspects, as well as Henry
Kissinger, the late Ron Ziegler and Leonard Garment:

CNN.com: Just who is Deep Throat? (June 17, 2002)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/06/17/deep.throat.facts/


Finally, Leonard Garment -- a candidate himself -- wrote a book in
which he said that his own candidate for "Deep Throat" was John Sears,
a deputy special counsel to Nixon:

Book Reporter: "IN SEARCH OF DEEP THROAT"
http://aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com/reviews/0465026141.asp


Search Strategy:

I found the information using a variety of Google searches, the most
useful of which was this one:

"who is OR was deep throat" watergate
://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22who+is+OR+was+deep+throat%22+watergate&btnG=Search


I am confident that the list I have provided is the best currently
available information on the most likely candidates for "Deep Throat."
 It is based on a serious study supervised by a respected
investigatory journalist.  While the results of the study are not
proven facts, they are based on much supporting evidence that you can
evaluate yourself on the website linked in the answer.

If anything is unclear, please ask for clarification before rating the answer.

markj-ga
rhd123-ga rated this answer:4 out of 5 stars
thank you, you provided the exact infromation I was looking for

Comments  
Subject: Re: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate
From: woofles-ga on 27 Dec 2004 22:19 PST
 
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and their editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee are
all suspected individuals believed to have been "Deep Throat."
Subject: Re: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate
From: rhd123-ga on 27 Dec 2004 23:35 PST
 
are there any others
Subject: Re: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate
From: rhd123-ga on 27 Dec 2004 23:36 PST
 
could a researcher answer this question i paid ten dollars
Subject: Re: Woodward and Bernstien investigation of Watergate
From: mongolia-ga on 04 Jun 2005 17:13 PDT
 
so now you have your REAL answer. 
"W. Mark Felt A longtime top FBI official, he also had access to
secret information that Throat passed on to Woodward. Felt also had a
motive: Nixon passed him over for the FBI's top job. By one account,
reporter Carl Bernstein's young son once spilled the beans that Felt
was indeed Throat, but both Bernstein and Felt denied it."

Mongolia

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