FORA.tv Speaker - 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."