"Deep Throat" & Christopher Hitchens

Here's a fun little nugget: Christopher Hitchens came within an ace of discovering Watergate informant "Deep Throat" 's identity in 1981. He charmed the name out of Carl Bernstein's wife. She told him, "It's nobody famous- as I recall, it was an FBI man named Felt." (1) The only candidate Hitch could think of had recently been pardoned by Reagan after being convicted of illegally wiretapping lefties, so Mr. God my intuition Is Not Great dismissed him as unlikely to be the masked man that brought down the Nixon Presidency.

Nope- same guy.

Well, Felt's name had been floating around the speculation as to Deep Throat's identity for some time. He even penned a book in which he denied it. But in 1981, the US was heaping cash and guns on every tyrannical brute who Nancy Reagan's astrologer predicted would be a reliable foe of Communism. So, Hitchens had a lot on his plate at that time and never pursued the matter. It would be another quarter-century before the whole story came to light.

What if...



(1) Hitchens, Christopher Hitch - 22 pp. 234
 
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I'm not sure that would have made a lot of difference. Since there was a lot of distrust in Watergate related matters. I'm not sure anyone would have beleved it. Maby it would have outed the real one sooner. I thought that Deep Throat was a group effort. I doubt I would have belived the report.
 
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