The search for Deep Throat

For 30 years, Washington’s greatest mystery has been the identity of Deep Throat—the informant who guided The Washington Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal. Who was Deep Throat?

Why has the secret lasted?

Deep Throat’s identity apparently is known only to four people—reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, their former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, and Deep Throat himself. The whistle-blower who brought down a president has insisted on maintaining his privacy, the journalists say, and they’ve promised to keep the secret as long as he lives. That hasn’t stopped a slew of amateur sleuths from trying to solve the puzzle.

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