It is notoriously difficult to keep a secret in Washington DC. But there was one political mystery that went unsolved for 30 years.
Until finally in 2005 a former top FBI official named Mark Felt revealed that he was the secret source dubbed “Deep Throat” who guided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post in uncovering the Watergate scandal.
Working with veteran attorney and former prosecutor John O’Connor, Felt published his memoir in 2006, a book called A G-man’s Life.
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Drawing on his notes, letters, and diaries over the years O’Connor helped Felt assemble a portrait of a man dedicated to law enforcement but conflicted about going outside regular channels with his Inside information.
Mark Felt was 93 when the book was published, and was unable to go on a book tour or do interviews, so his publisher sent John O’Connor in his place. That’s when I met John.
So here now, from 2006, Mark Felt’s co-author John O’Connor.
Mark Felt died two years after this interview, in 2008, at age 95.