Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward of ''The Washington Post'' in 1972 about the involvement of United States President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. Thirty-one years after Nixon's resignation, Deep Throat was revealed to be former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt.
Howard Simons, the managing editor of the ''Post'' during Watergate, dubbed the secret informant "Deep Throat" as an allusion to the notorious pornographic movie which was a cause of controversy at the time. The name was also a play on the journalism term "deep background," referring to information provided by a secret source that, by agreement, will not be reported directly.
For more than 30 years, the identity of Deep Throat was one of the biggest mysteries of American politics and journalism and the source of much public curiosity and speculation. Woodward and Bernstein insisted they would not reveal his identity until he died or consented to have his identity revealed.
On May 31, 2005, ''Vanity Fair'' magazine revealed that William Mark Felt, Sr. was Deep Throat, when it published an article (eventually appearing in the July issue) on its website by John D. O'Connor, an attorney acting on Felt's behalf, in which Felt reportedly said, "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat." After the ''Vanity Fair'' story broke, Woodward, Bernstein, and Benjamin C. Bradlee, the ''Post'''s executive editor during Watergate, confirmed Felt's claim to be Deep Throat. L. Patrick Gray, former acting Director of the FBI and Felt's boss, disputes Felt's claim to be the sole source in Gray's book, ''In Nixon's Web'', written with his son Ed Gray. Instead, Gray and others have continued to argue that Deep Throat was a compilation of sources combined into one character in order to improve sales of the book and movie.
The situation was unusual because the five burglars had $2,300 in hundred-dollar bills with serial numbers in sequence, some lock-picks and door-jimmys, a walkie-talkie, a radio scanner capable of listening to police frequencies, two cameras, 40 rolls of unused film, tear-gas guns, and sophisticated electronic devices capable of recording all conversations that might be held in the offices.
At least one of the men was a former Central Intelligence Agency employee. This person, Jim McCord, Jr., was, at the time of his arrest, a security man for President Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President (also known by its acronym, "CREEP", among Nixon's political opponents). Notebooks were found on two of the men containing the telephone number of E. Howard Hunt, whose name in the notebooks was accompanied by the inscriptions “W House” and “W.H.”
The scandal immediately attracted some media scrutiny. A protracted period of clue-searching and trail-following then ensued, with reporters, and eventually the United States Senate and the judicial system probing to see how far up the Executive branch of government the Watergate scandal, as it had come to be known, extended.
A pair of young ''Washington Post'' reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, wrote the coverage of the story over a period of two years. The scandal eventually was shown to involve a variety of legal violations and it implicated many members of the Nixon White House. With increasing pressure from the courts and the Senate, Nixon eventually became the first U.S. President to resign, thereby avoiding impeachment by the House of Representatives.
Woodward and Bernstein's stories contained information that was remarkably similar to the information uncovered by FBI investigators. This was a journalistic advantage not enjoyed by any other journalists at the time. In their later book, ''All the President's Men'', Woodward and Bernstein claimed this information came from a single anonymous informant dubbed "Deep Throat". It was later revealed, and confirmed by Woodward and Bernstein, that Deep Throat was FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt.
Woodward had befriended Felt years earlier, and had consulted with him on stories before the Watergate scandal. Woodward, Bernstein, and others credit the information provided by Deep Throat with being instrumental in ensuring the success of the investigation into the Watergate Scandal.
Woodward claimed that he would signal "Deep Throat" that he desired a meeting by placing a flowerpot with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment. When Deep Throat wanted a meeting he would make special marks on page twenty of Woodward's copy of ''The New York Times''; he would circle the page number and draw clock hands to indicate the hour. They often met "on the bottom level of an underground garage just over the Key Bridge in Rosslyn," at 2:00 a.m. The garage is located at 1401 Wilson Boulevard.
Many were dubious of these cloak and dagger methods. Adrian Havill investigated these claims for his 1993 biography of Woodward and Bernstein and found them to be factually impossible. He noted that Woodward's apartment 617 at 1718 P Street, Northwest, in Washington faced an interior courtyard and was not visible from the street. Havill said anyone regularly checking the balcony, as "Deep Throat" was said to have done daily, would have been spotted. Havill also said that copies of ''The Times'' were not delivered to individual apartments but delivered in an un-addressed stack at the building's reception desk. There would have been no way to know which copy was intended for Woodward. Woodward, however, has stated that in the early 1970s the interior courtyard was an alleyway and had not yet been bricked off, and that his balcony was visible from street level to passing pedestrians. It was also visible, Woodward conjectured, to anyone from the FBI in surveillance of nearby embassies. Also revealed was the fact that Woodward's copy of the ''New York Times'' had his apartment number indicated on it. Former neighbor Herman Knippenberg stated that Woodward would sometimes come to his door looking for his marked copy of the Times, claiming "I like to have it in mint condition and I like to have my own copy".
Further, while Woodward in his book stressed these precautions, he also admits to calling "Deep Throat" on the telephone at his home.
In his book ''The Secret Man'', Woodward describes Felt as a loyalist and admirer of J. Edgar Hoover. After Hoover's death, Felt became angry and disgusted when L. Patrick Gray, career naval officer and lawyer from the Civil Division of the Department of Justice with no prior law enforcement experience, was appointed Director of the F.B.I. over Felt, a 30-year veteran of the Bureau. Felt was particularly unhappy with Gray's management style of the F.B.I., which was markedly different from Hoover's. Felt selected Woodward and Bernstein because he knew they were assigned to investigate the burglary. Instead of seeking out prosecutors at the Justice Department, or the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating presidential wrongdoing, he methodically leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein to guide their investigation while keeping his own identity and involvement safely concealed.
Some conservatives who worked for Nixon such as Pat Buchanan and G. Gordon Liddy castigated Felt and asserted their belief that Nixon was unfairly hounded from office.
Although confirmation of Deep Throat's identity remained elusive for over 30 years, there were a few suspicions that Felt was indeed the reporters' elusive source long before the public acknowledgement in 2005.
In February 2005, Nixon's former White House Counsel, news columnist John Dean, reported that Woodward had recently informed Bradlee that "Deep Throat" was ailing and close to death, and that Bradlee had written Deep Throat's obituary. Both Woodward and the then-current editor of ''The Washington Post'', Leonard Downie, denied these claims. Felt was something of a suspect, especially after the mysterious meeting that occurred between Woodward and Felt in the summer of 1999. But others had received more attention over the years, such as Pat Buchanan, Henry Kissinger, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, General Haig, and, before it was revealed that "Deep Throat" was definitely not female, Diane Sawyer.
On May 31, 2005, ''Vanity Fair'' magazine reported that William Mark Felt, then aged 91, claimed to be the man once known as "Deep Throat". Later that day, Woodward, Bernstein, and Bradlee released a statement through ''The Washington Post'' confirming that the story was true.
On June 2, 2005, the ''Washington Post'' ran a lengthy front-page by Woodward in which he detailed his friendship with Felt in the years before Watergate. Woodward wrote that he first met Felt by chance in 1970, when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant in his mid-twenties who was dispatched to deliver a package to the White House's West Wing. Felt arrived soon after, for a separate appointment, and sat next to Woodward in the waiting room. Woodward struck up a conversation, eventually learning of Felt's position in the upper echelon of the FBI. Woodward, who was about to get out of the Navy at the time and was unsure about his future direction in life, became determined to use Felt as a mentor and career advisor, and so he got Felt's phone number and kept in touch with him.
After deciding to try a career as a reporter, Woodward eventually joined the ''Washington Post'' in August, 1971. Felt, who Woodward writes, had long had a dim view of the Nixon Administration, began passing pieces of information to Woodward, although he insisted that Woodward keep the FBI and Justice Department out of anything he wrote based on the information. The first time Woodward used information from Felt in a ''Washington Post'' story was in mid-May 1972, a month before the Watergate burglary, when Woodward was reporting on the man who had attempted to assassinate Presidential candidate George C. Wallace of Alabama; Nixon had put Felt in charge of investigating the would-be assassin. A month later, just days after the Watergate break-in, Woodward would call Felt at his office, marking the first time Woodward spoke with Felt about Watergate.
Commenting on Felt's motivations for serving as his "Deep Throat" source, Woodward wrote, "Felt believed he was protecting the bureau by finding a way, clandestine as it was, to push some of the information from the FBI interviews and files out to the public, to help build public and political pressure to make Nixon and his people answerable. He had nothing but contempt for the Nixon White House and their efforts to manipulate the Bureau for political reasons."
In 1980, Felt himself was convicted of ordering illegal break-ins at the homes of Weathermen suspects, and their families. Richard Nixon testified on his behalf. President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt, and the conviction was subsequently expunged from the record.
From a literary business perspective, this theory was further supported by the agent who originally marketed the draft for ''All the President's Men'', who stated that the initial typescript of the book contained absolutely no reference to Deep Throat. That led to speculation that Woodward and Bernstein played at condensing history in the same way Hollywood scriptwriters do: the writer sees that the real life hero doing the Great Deed had a dozen helpers, boils them down to a single person, and gives him a fictional name.
This theory was originally thought to be put to rest by Felt claiming to be Deep Throat. However, recent studies of FBI investigative files, Woodward's released notes on his meetings with Deep Throat, and the conversations attributed to Deep Throat in ''All the President's Men'', have revealed that Felt could not possibly have told Woodward all of the information attributed to Deep Throat.
Specifically, in his examination of Woodward's notes on Deep Throat, Ed Gray quotes the notes, quoting Deep Throat, as saying "Mitchell conducted his own invest[igation] for ten days and 'was going crazy---we had guys assigned to him to help.' w."[sic]
Gray points out that if that source "...was Mark Felt, his “we” could only mean the FBI. But there certainly were no FBI agents assigned to an internal CREEP investigation of its own employees immediately after the break-in, the results of which were precisely what Mitchell and CREEP wanted to keep away from the FBI. If there had been FBI agents “assigned to help” who “found all sorts of new things,” not only would the Watergate case have been broken during those first ten days, but the FBI’s files would be filled with FD-302s of the resultant interviews. There are none."
Gray also cites a conversation he had with Donald Santarelli, an official with the Department of Justice during the Watergate era, in which Gray described the contents of some notes of Woodward's that were attributed to Deep Throat. In response, Santarelli reportedly told Gray, "This definitely was me. Bob would call me regularly and would ask me stuff like this." He further states that "Deep Throat is still a composite... It wasn't just Mark Felt."
Dean had been one of the most dedicated hunters of "Deep Throat." Both he and Leonard Garment dismissed Fielding as a possibility, reporting that he had been cleared by Woodward in 1980 when Fielding was applying for an important position in the Ronald Reagan administration. However this assertion, which comes from Fielding, has not been corroborated.
One reason that many experts believed that "Deep Throat" was Fielding and not Felt was due to Woodward's apparent denial in an interview that "Deep Throat" worked in the intelligence community:
: ''LUKAS: Do you resent the implication by some critics that your sources on Watergate—among them the fabled "Deep Throat"—may have been people in the intelligence community?''
: ''WOODWARD: I resent it because it's untrue.''
In retrospect, it appears that Woodward was only excluding the ''foreign'' intelligence agencies with that statement, and not the FBI.
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Name | Claude VonStroke |
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Background | non_performing_personnel |
Birth name | Barclay Crenshaw |
Occupation | DJ, Producer |
Origin | Detroit, United States Currently: San Francisco, Ca |
Genre | House, Minimal House |
Years active | 2003–present |
Label | dirtybird, mothership}} |
Claude VonStroke is an American house and techno producer based in San Francisco. He owns the Dirtybird and Mothership labels. In July 2006 he released his debut album, ''Beware of the Bird'', which received excellent reviews. He has produced a 'Fabric' mix, which was released in May 2009, and has also appeared on Pete Tong's Essential Mix Radio show. In 2009, he released his second studio album, Bird Brain(bumbum).
Track listing: # Warming Up the Bass Machines # Deep Throat # Chimps # Beware of the Bird # The Whistler # Who's Afraid of Detroit? # Eastern Market # Cicada "17 Year Mix" (Remix of Justin Martin) # The 7 Deadly Strokes # Birdshit (Remix of Frankie) # Southern Fried Remix (Remix of Justin M & Sammy D "The Southern Draw") # Lullabye (Live Rec. from Poorboy, Detroit 1999. New Vocal by QZen) # Heater (Remix of Samim "Heater")
Track Listing # Monster Island # The Greasy Beat feat. Bootsy Collins # Vocal Chords # Big n' Round # Bay Area # California # Aundy # Beat That Bird # Storm On Lake St. Claire # Jasper's Baby Robot
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name | Linda Lovelace |
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gender | female |
birth date | January 10, 1949 |
birth place | Bronx, New York, U.S. |
birthname | Linda Susan Boreman |
death date | April 22, 2002Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
height | |
eye color | Brown |
hair color | Brunette |
ethnicity | Caucasian |
alias | Linda Lovelace |
number of films | 12 |
spelling | US }} |
Linda Susan Boreman (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress who was famous for her performance of deep throat fellatio in the enormously successful 1972 hardcore porn film ''Deep Throat''. She later denounced her pornography career, claiming that she had been forced into it by her sadistic first husband, and for a while became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.
In her 1980 autobiography, ''Ordeal'', she said she gave birth to a son in 1969 when she was 20, and her mother put the child up for adoption. Boreman said she had been told the child was only being put in foster care until she was ready to care for him, and was heartbroken to learn she would never see him again. Boreman moved back to New York in 1970. She was involved in a violent car crash, requiring her to undergo a blood transfusion which would lead to later health problems. She returned home to recover.
Boreman was soon performing as Linda Lovelace in hardcore "loops", short 8mm silent films made for peep shows. She starred in a 1971 bestiality film titled ''Dog Fucker'' or alternately ''Dogarama''. She later denied appearing in the film, until several of the original loops proved otherwise.
In 1972, Boreman starred in ''Deep Throat'', which achieved surprising and unprecedented popularity among mainstream audiences, and even a review in ''The New York Times''. In ''Deep Throat'' she famously performed the act for which the film was named; additionally, all of her pubic hair was shaved off and she engaged in anal sex. None of these were common in pornographic films of the early 1970s.
Boreman told the July 1980 issue of Elite magazine about her 1974 break from Traynor and her relationship with Winters: "What really undid Traynor was his own egomania and non-control of his overestimated power. He constantly interfered with David Winters and the other members of the [song-and-dance] act during rehearsals, just as he had bugged Gerry Damiano during the Deep Throat filming. Only this was big legit business ... I was the star and he was the nuisance. They all turned on him. Chuck lost his grasp. The strength of David and others to defy him became my strength. I could now see the light at the end of the tunnel.
"Then I moved in with Winters. Traynor went berserk. He threatened everyone. Chuck told Peraino, the mob guy from Deep Throat, that I had been kidnapped, so the mob guy sent his bodyguard to assist Chuck in my 'recovery', which was actually my recapture. It failed. I talked to all the people Chuck conned. Suddenly Traynor's power-pack fizzled. He no longer threatened to kill people, their wives, their kids, their relatives. He tried to plead for my return. Fat chance! It was over."
After ''Deep Throat'', Boreman appeared in only two films, both of which were softcore: ''Deep Throat II'' (1974), an R-rated sequel to the hardcore original, and an erotic comedy, ''Linda Lovelace for President'' (1975) produced by Winters. The movie also starred Micky Dolenz, whom Winters knew from Winters' first job as a director on The Monkees (TV series): Monkees Blow Their Minds (1968). In her 1980 autobiography, ''Ordeal'', Lovelace maintained that those films used leftover footage from ''Deep Throat''; however, she frequently contradicted this statement. She also posed for ''Playboy'', ''Bachelor'', and ''Esquire'' magazines between 1973 and 1974.
In January 1974, Boreman was arrested for possession of cocaine and amphetamines. That same year, she published two "pro-porn" autobiographies, ''Inside Linda Lovelace'' and ''The Intimate Diary of Linda Lovelace''.
In 1976, she was chosen to play the title role in the erotic movie ''Laure''. However, according to the producer Ovidio G. Assonitis, Lovelace was, "very much on drugs" at the time. She had already signed for the part when she decided that "God had changed her life," refused to do any nudity, and even objected to a statue of the Venus de Milo on the set because of its exposed breasts. She was replaced by French actress Annie Belle.
On the second commentator's DVD track of the documentary ''Inside Deep Throat'', ''Deep Throat 2'' co-star Andrea True said Traynor was a sadist and was disliked by the ''Deep Throat 2'' cast.
In the book ''The Other Hollywood'', by Legs McNeil, witnesses, including Gerard Damiano, the film's director, state Traynor beat Boreman behind closed doors, but they also question her credibility. Adult-film actress Gloria Leonard is quoted as saying, "This was a woman who never took responsibility for her own [...] choices made; but instead blamed everything that happened to her in her life on porn." Boreman maintained she received no money for ''Deep Throat'', and that the $1,250 payment for her appearance was taken by Traynor. In 1979, she retained Victor Yannacone, an attorney more frequently associated with environmental lawsuits, to sue for a share of the film's multi-million-dollar earnings. The suit was dismissed without trial by the New York Supreme Court in Mineola, New York, and was never appealed.
There was controversy over her allegations, and her objections to the pornography industry as a whole. Pornographer and writer Hart Williams coined the term "Linda Syndrome" to refer to women who leave pornography and repudiate their past career by condemning the industry.
In 1986, Boreman published ''Out of Bondage'', a memoir focusing on her life after 1974. She testified before the 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography in New York City, stating “When you see the movie ''Deep Throat'', you are watching me being raped. It is a crime that movie is still showing; there was a gun to my head the entire time.” Following Boreman's testimony for the Meese Commission, she gave lectures on college campuses, decrying what she described as callous and exploitative practices in the pornography industry.
In ''The Other Hollywood'', Boreman said she felt "used" by the anti-pornography movement. "Between Andrea Dworkin and Kitty MacKinnon, they've written so many books, and they mention my name and all that, but financially they've never helped me out. […] They made a few bucks off me, just like everybody else."
On April 3, 2002, Boreman suffered massive trauma and internal injuries in a car accident. On April 22, 2002 she was taken off life support and died in Denver, Colorado at the age of 53. Marchiano and their two children were present when she died. Boreman was interred at Parker Cemetery in Parker, Colorado.
Boreman was the focus of a 2005 documentary, ''Inside Deep Throat''.
In 2008, ''Lovelace: A Rock Musical'', based on two of Boreman's four autobiographies, debuted at the Hayworth Theater in Los Angeles. The score and libretto were written by Anna Waronker of the 1990s rock group that dog. and Charlotte Caffey of the '80s girl group, the Go-Go's.
As of 2010, a biographical film entitled ''Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story'', starring Malin Åkerman, was scheduled to be directed by Matthew Wilder and produced by Chris Hanley and to begin filming in early 2011.
Tina Yothers, who as a child actress co-starred on the television sitcom ''Family Ties'', was cast as Lovelace in ''Lovelace: The Musical''.
Other books:
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name | Can I Get a Witness |
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artist | Marvin Gaye |
album | Greatest Hits |
b-side | "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" |
released | September 1963 |
format | 7" single |
recorded | July 17, 1963; Hitsville U.S.A.(Detroit, Michigan) |
genre | Soul, rock and roll |
length | 2:53 |
label | TamlaT 54087 |
writer | Holland–Dozier–Holland |
producer | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier |
last single | "Pride and Joy"(1963) |
this single | "Can I Get a Witness"(1963) |
next single | "You're a Wonderful One"(1964) }} |
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Name | Matt Rogers |
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Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Matthew Wyatt Rogers|alias Matt Rogers |
Birth date | September 16, 1978 |
Origin | Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States |
Genre | Pop |
Instrument | Vocals |
Years active | 2004—present |
Associated acts | }} |
Matthew Wyatt "Matt" Rogers (born September 16, 1978 in Rancho Cucamonga, California) is an American television host of ''There Goes the Neighborhood''. He was also one of the finalists on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series ''American Idol'' and was the host of Really Big Things and is the host of There Goes the Neighborhood on the Discovery Channel.
He married his longtime girlfriend Teri Himes on February 19, 2005, and have a son named Brayden Douglas, born on April 16, 2006, weighing in at 8 lbs.
Rogers was the host for the Discovery Channel shows ''Really Big Things'' in 2007 and ''There Goes the Neighborhood'' in 2009. He now hosts ''Coming Home'' on Lifetime, which debuted March 6, 2011.
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