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Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 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. In 2005, thirty-one years after Nixon's resignation and eleven years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. Felt was battling dementia at the time, and had denied being Deep Throat previously. ==Identity== Deep Throat was first introduced to the public in the 1974 book ''All the President's Men'', written by ''Washington Post'' reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film two years later. According to the authors, Deep Throat was a key source of information behind a series of articles on a scandal which played a leading role in introducing the misdeeds of the Nixon administration to the general public. The scandal would eventually lead to the resignation of President Nixon as well as prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, Egil Krogh, White House Counsels Charles Colson, former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, John Dean, and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman. Howard Simons, the managing editor of the ''Post'' during Watergate, dubbed the secret informant "Deep Throat", alluding to the deep background status of his information and to the movie which was a cause of controversy at the time. The name was chosen due to the amount of publicity of the film and the ambiguity of its lacking an identifiable connection to the events. 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. Even though J. Anthony Lukas correctly "speculated" that the identity of Deep Throat was in fact W. Mark Felt in his 1976 book, ''Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years'', (based on three ''The New York Times Sunday Magazine'' articles—two published in full), Lukas was widely criticized. In a 1989 interview with Lukas for ''Playboy Magazine'', Woodward denied that Deep Throat was part of the "intelligence community", according to an article in ''Slate Magazine'' of April 28, 2003. 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 ''Posts executive editor during Watergate, confirmed Felt's claim to be Deep Throat.〔Woodward, Bob. ''The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat'', Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-8715-0〕 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. Woodward and Bernstein, however, defended Felt's claims and detailed their relationship with Felt in Woodward's book ''The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deep Throat (Watergate)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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