A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being "Deep Throat," and the Struggle for Honor in Washington.
In May of 2005, former FBI deputy director Mark Felt was identified as Watergate's "Deep Throat," the informant whose secret conversations with Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward helped bring down Richard Nixon's presidency. In "A G-Man's Life," he recounts his career as one of the Bureau's top officials. During this event at Copperfield's Books in Santa Rosa, California, he is represented by his daughter Joan Felt and his grandson Will Felt.
Bio
Mark Felt
William Mark Felt Sr. (born August 17, 1913) is a former agent and top official of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). After 30 years of denials, Felt revealed himself in May 2005 to be the Watergate informant called "Deep Throat."
Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's Washington headquarters. During the early investigation of the Watergate scandal (1972–74), Felt was the Bureau's Associate Director, the second-ranking post in the FBI. While Associate Director, Felt provided Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads on the story that eventually saw the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.
On May 31, 2005, Felt was revealed to have been "Deep Throat." His identity as Woodward's informant had been a secret for three decades and had been the source of much speculation in American political and popular culture. Felt lives in Santa Rosa, California, and has completed an update of his 1979 autobiography which provides information on his past as "Deep Throat."
As a teenager growing up in the Washington DC area in the early 70's with a father who was an FBI agent and later a State Department official, this story is fascinating. All the kids on my block thought my dad was a spy when he would come back from South America in the middle of the winter with a tan. And I've asked him and he insists he wasn't. But I can only imagine the incredible price Mark Felt and his family paid during that era for really keeping a secret of that proportion. This is real family drama, even outside of the massive implications it's had for our country.