Deep Throat Soon to Revealed

Watergate source Deep Throat is ill, and Bob Woodward has notified the Washington Post to get ready to run his obituary, said former Nixon aide John Dean, in the Los Angeles Times. Woodward, now the Post’s managing editor, and this former colleague, Carl Bernstein have kept Deep Throat's identity secret since their reporting on the Watergate scandal helped bring down the Nixon administration, more than three decades ago. But they've said they'll reveal Deep Throat's identity when he dies. “We’ll all know one day very soon,” said Dean. The obituary has already been written.

The Week, February 18, 2005, Vol. 5, Iss. 195, pp. 10