68 Facts About Mark Felt

Mark Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's headquarters.

Mark Felt was ordered to pay a fine, but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal.

In 2005, at age 91, Mark Felt revealed to Vanity Fair magazine that during his tenure as Deputy Director of the FBI he had been the anonymous source known as "Deep Throat", who provided The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein with critical information about the Watergate scandal, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

Mark Felt finally acknowledged that he was Deep Throat after being persuaded by his daughter to reveal his identity before his death.

Mark Felt published two memoirs: The FBI Pyramid in 1979 and A G-Man's Life, written with John O'Connor in 2006.

Mark Felt's paternal grandfather was a Free Will Baptist minister.

Mark Felt's maternal grandparents were born in Canada and Scotland.

Mark Felt was a member and president of the Gamma Gamma chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935.

In 1938, Mark Felt married Audrey Robinson of Gooding, Idaho, whom he had known when they were students at the University of Idaho.

Mark Felt had come to Washington to work at the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Audrey died by suicide on July 20,1984; she and Felt had two children, Joan and Mark.

Mark Felt stayed on with Pope's successor in the Senate, David Worth Clark.

Mark Felt attended the George Washington University Law School at night, earning his JD degree in 1940, and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1941.

Mark Felt's workload was very light, and he was assigned to investigate whether a toilet paper brand, called "Red Cross", was misleading consumers into thinking it was endorsed by the American Red Cross.

Mark Felt applied for a job with the FBI in November 1941 and was accepted.

Mark Felt returned to FBI Headquarters, where he was assigned to the Espionage Section of the Domestic Intelligence Division, tracking down spies and saboteurs during World War II.

In 1954 Mark Felt returned briefly to Washington as an inspector's aide.

In 1956, Mark Felt was transferred to Salt Lake City and promoted to Special Agent-in-Charge.

The Salt Lake City office included Nevada within its purview, and Mark Felt oversaw some of the Bureau's earliest investigations into organized crime, assessing the Mob's operations in the Reno and Las Vegas casinos.

On July 1,1971, Mark Felt was promoted by Hoover to Deputy Associate Director, assisting Deputy Director Clyde Tolson.

Richard Gid Powers wrote that Hoover installed Felt to rein in William C Sullivan's domestic spying operations, as Sullivan had been engaged in secret unofficial work for the White House.

Mark Felt succeeded to Tolson's post as Deputy Director, the number-two job in the Bureau.

Mark Felt said Gray "looked casually at an open file drawer and approved her work", though Gray would later deny he looked at anything.

Mark Felt visited all of the Bureau's field offices except Honolulu; a permanent Resident Agency was established in Guam in 1975, becoming the FBI's westernmost investigative office.

Mark Felt believed Gray's methods were an unnecessary distraction from the work of the FBI and showed a lack of leadership.

Mark Felt asserted that he was not the only career manager at the FBI who disapproved of Gray's methods, all of whom had served only under Hoover.

Mark Felt's information, taken on a promise that Woodward would never reveal its origin, was a source for a few stories, notably for an article on May 18,1972, about Arthur Bremer, who shot George Wallace.

Mark Felt said Woodward's balcony faced an interior courtyard and was not visible from the street.

How [Mark Felt] could have made a daily observation of my balcony is still a mystery to me.

Haldeman told President Nixon on June 23,1972, that Mark Felt would "want to cooperate because he's ambitious".

Mark Felt knows everything that's to be known in the FBI.

Haldeman said that he had spoken to White House counsel John W Dean about punishing Felt, but Dean said Felt had committed no crime and could not be prosecuted.

In June 1973, Ruckelshaus received a call from someone claiming to be a New York Times reporter, telling him that Mark Felt was the source of this information.

Mark Felt resigned from the Bureau the next day, June 22,1973, ending his 31-year career.

Mark Felt said that he considered Felt's resignation "an admission of guilt" anyway.

In 1976, Mark Felt publicly stated he had ordered break-ins and recommended against punishment of individual agents who had followed orders.

Mark Felt stated that Gray had authorized the break-ins, but Gray denied this.

Mark Felt said on the CBS television program Face the Nation he would probably be a "scapegoat" for the Bureau's work.

Seven hundred current and former FBI agents were outside the courthouse applauding the "Washington Three", as Mark Felt referred to himself and his colleagues in his memoir.

Mark Felt had avoided appearing in any legal proceedings during it and had been pardoned by President Gerald Ford after his resignation.

Mark Felt settled in Alexandria, Virginia while she was an undergraduate, for his post at the FBI Academy.

Mark Felt earned her master's degree in Spanish at Stanford, and then joined a hippie community in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The stress of following her husband's career as well as the separation of her daughter resulted in Audrey suffering a nervous breakdown in 1954, while Mark Felt was in Seattle.

Mark Felt had developed a dependence on alcohol, had been taking antidepressants for years, and had been hospitalized several times for various ailments.

When Mark Felt was put on trial in 1980, she attended the first day, but did not return, as she was unable to bear it.

In 1990 Mark Felt permanently moved to Santa Rosa, leaving Alexandria.

Mark Felt bought a house where he lived with Joan, and took care of the boys while she worked, teaching at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College.

Mark Felt suffered a stroke before 1999, as reported by Kessler in his book, The Bureau.

Mark Felt asked if it was okay to have a martini with my father at lunch, and I said it would be fine.

Mark Felt published his memoir The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside in 1979.

Mark Felt denounced the treatment of Bureau agents as criminals and said the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act of 1974 served only to interfere with government work and helped criminals.

Curt Gentry said in 1991 that Mark Felt was "the keeper of the Hoover flame".

The identity of Deep Throat was debated for more than three decades, and though Mark Felt was not prominently mentioned as Watergate unfolded, his name was mentioned often as a possibility.

Jack Limpert published evidence as early as 1974 that Mark Felt was the informant.

Mark Felt says he isn't now, nor has he ever been Deep Throat.

The prosecutor, J Stanley Pottinger, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, discovered that Felt was "Deep Throat", but the secrecy of the proceedings protected the information from being public.

Mark Felt noted Felt as a possibility, but said he could not confirm this.

In July 1999, Mark Felt was identified as Deep Throat by the Hartford Courant, citing Chase Culeman-Beckman, a nineteen-year-old from Port Chester, New York.

The trouble with Mark Felt's candidacy was that Deep Throat in All the President's Men simply did not sound to me like a career FBI man.

The excerpt of the working draft obtained by the Chronicle has Mark Felt still denying he's Throat but providing a rationale for why Throat did the right thing.

Vanity Fair magazine revealed that Felt was Deep Throat on May 31,2005, when it published an article on its website by John D O'Connor, an attorney acting in Felt's behalf.

Mark Felt's family was unaware that he was Deep Throat for many years.

Mark Felt's family realized the truth after his retirement, when they became aware of his close friendship with Bob Woodward.

Nixon's Chief Counsel Charles Colson, who served prison time for his actions in the Nixon White House, said Mark Felt had violated "his oath to keep this nation's secrets".

Mark Felt attempted to rescind the deal, threatening legal action.

Mark Felt sold the movie rights to his story to Universal Pictures for development by Tom Hanks's production company, Playtone.

Mark Felt died at home, in his sleep, on December 18,2008.

Mark Felt was 95 years old and his death was attributed to heart failure.