Deep Throat is the
pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to
Bob Woodward, who shared it with
Carl Bernstein. Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for
The Washington Post, and Deep Throat provided key details about the involvement of
U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the
Watergate scandal. In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director
Mark Felt was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim.