Vía Gawker.
Desde hace 30 minutos que la CNN está diciendo que en el próximo número de Vanity Fair William Mark Felt (91 años) se confesará como la Garganta profunda del Watergate:
Felt was the crucial inside source for exposing Watergate and ultimately sending Nixon home from the White House.
During Watergate, Felt was the number 3 man at the FBI and now, ailing at age 91, he’s finally revealed the best-kept secret in journalism. Anti-climactic, no?
Bernstein no ha confirmado.
Recursos
W. Mark Felt en Google News USA.
The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers.
En Periodistas21 → Watergate: trozos de historia del periodismo (07/02/2005).
Actualización 18:46H: La noticia ya está on line en la web de la CNN (los blogs se le adelantaron 15 minutos):
(…) «I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,» he told lawyer John D. O’Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a press release.
«I don’t think (being Deep Throat) was anything to be proud of,» Felt indicated to his son, Mark Jr., at one point, according to the article. «You (should) not leak information to anyone.»
Felt is a retiree living in Santa Rosa, Calif., with his daughter, Joan, the magazine said. He could not immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press.
Actualización 01/06/2005 — 10:08H: El Washington Post, con Woodward y Bernstein a la cabeza, confirma que Felt fue «Deep Throat».
Los informativos de ayer en sus ediciones de las 20.30h y 21.00h no dijeron nada. Qué poca capacidad de reacción.