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;

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

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]

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mark felt original leaks

I’ve never modified an article with any new information requiring sourcing, so I ask someone else to do this if they so please. I feel like it would be quite important to mention this: Mark Felt (most likely) leaked documents to a TIME reporter, Sandy Smith, before taking on the role of Deep Throat, as soon as a week after the break-in. This makes his intent, even early on, much clearer. Again, I’m not sure how to properly source anything here. ~2025-32229-54 (talk) 06:26, 27 January 2026 (UTC)