Talk:Mark Felt

Bad sentence

This sentence in the third paragraph is, at minimum, badly punctuated (e.g. "pyramid" needs a capital letter and following comma); I'd go further and call it unclear and badly written - I can't quite tell what it's trying to say:

Felt lives in Santa Rosa, California, and has completed an update of his 1979 autobiography, The FBI pyramid which he wrote along with his son, provides information on his past as "Deep Throat,"but not revealing himself as such just yet (it will take 33 years.)

Confirmation

Confirmed by Woodward; [1]

The Washington Post article cites Ben Bradlee as confirming Felt, he is one of the four men who knows the identity; [2]

traitor

I deleted this sentence:

Felt is now considered by most Americans to be a traitor.

as it is inflammatory and unsubstantiated. If you want this in the article you need to back it up and rephrase it, e.g.:

According to the Blandy and Jones survey 72% of U.S. citizens consider Felt a traitor (external link to survey information)

Cheers, Funkyj

Tell us something we don't already know

Listen to the radio: Democracy Now, 6-2-05 rean a segment introduced as follows:

Mark Felt -- who was exposed this week as Deep Throat -- was one of only two FBI officials ever to be convicted for ordering COINTELPRO operations. In 1980 he was convicted for ordering FBI agents to break into the home of Jennifer Dohrn and other associates of the Weather Underground. He was later pardoned by President Reagan. Jennifer Dohrn discusses the FBI surveillance, break-ins and a secret FBI proposal to kidnap her infant. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez also reveals that as a leader of the Young Lords that he, too, was also a target of a similar FBI campaign. [includes rush transcript]

creep

Still looking for the source of the statement that the CRP was pejoratively referred to as the CREEP. Any sources? Gef05 (talk) 18:25, 2 February 2012 (UTC)gef05

Extortion?

The intro says that “files pertaining to an extortion threat made against Felt in 1956” were released, but there is no mention of the events disclosed in the section on 1956 - if it’s notable enough for the intro, shouldn’t there be an explanation of the threat? 86.147.80.209 (talk) 10:22, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

There is no legitimate evidence that Nixon knew that Mark Felt was Deep Throat

"Though Felt's identity as Deep Throat was known to some in Washington, including Nixon himself..." The only source for this claim is Felt's book, which this Wikipedia entry makes clear was dishonest about Felt's role as "Deep Throat." Specifically, the Felt book falsely denies that Felt was Deep Throat. As such, Felt's book is substantially impeached on the subject of Deep Throat and Watergate, and is not a legitimate source for a claim that, so far as I know, cannot be otherwise sourced or supported -- i.e., there are no other sources I know of which claim that Nixon knew the identity of Deep Throat. Further, it is extremely difficult to believe that if Nixon *did* know the identity of Deep Throat (i.e., Felt) that Nixon would have testified on Felt's behalf in Felt's criminal trial, which occurred some years after the Watergate scandal. To summarize: the first part of the text quoted at the top of this entry is okay, but the claim that "Nixon himself" knew the identity of Deep Throat is (i) sourced to a book that is clearly impeached on the subject of Deep Throat and Watergate, (ii) finds no support in any other, legitimate source, and (iii) is contrary to logic given the extreme unlikelihood that Nixon would have testified on Mark Felt's behalf if Nixon had known that Felt was Deep Throat. Therefore, absent a new, legitimate source for the claim that "Nixon himself" knew the identity of Deep Throat, this claim should be deleted.

There's other evidence that Nixon knew, or at least strongly suspected, that it was Felt, including a taped conversation in October 1972 in which Nixon says of Felt, "You know what I'd do with him, the bastard?" Though it's true that it's odd that Nixon didn't lash out at Felt in any way even after resigning. (Unless he was worried that Felt still had some secrets to reveal.) How about this rewrite: "Though Felt's identity as Deep Throat was strongly suspected by some in Washington, including Nixon himself, and was speculated by many others, it generally remained a secret for the next 30 years." Korny O'Near (talk) 14:02, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

That rewrite, plus that CNN article as the source rather than Felt, works for me. Thanks.

Done - I'm glad we could something we could both agree on. Korny O'Near (talk) 03:19, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Alzheimer's disease

• http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7500156-181/mark-felts-daughter-grandsons-prepare
  • Alzheimer's disease
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawmans-unwavering-compass-led-him-to-white-house-showdown/2012/05/31/gJQAkIEuFV_story.html
  • Felt's wife, Audrey, committed suicide in 1984
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/21/AR2006042101858.html
  • daughter, Joan
• https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FAMILY-MAN-For-former-G-man-Mark-Felt-life-is-2518170.php
  • Mark Jr., was an Air Force pilot

Z75SG61Ilunqpdb (talk) 14:10, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Jarring, strange placement for Kessler mention

Why is the paragraph beginning:

Kessler said in his book that the measures Woodward took to conceal his meeting ...

in the Memoir section? That paragraph does not mention the memoir - it is nothing to do with the memoir! Was somebody at a loss where else to put it? Shenme (talk) 04:11, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Timeline discrepancy needs a fix or explanation

The article says,

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

But it also says that Joan didn't graduate from high school until 1961, so how could Joan's separation have contributed to a nervous breakdown in 1954? 2601:281:D880:7880:CC13:9994:AE2C:8CC4 (talk) 01:13, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

1954 doesn't make any sense here

"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 Felt was in Seattle" 2600:6C4E:1A7F:2981:294A:D281:60C9:94F1 (talk) 10:34, 15 December 2023 (UTC)