On May 31, 2005, W Mark Felt, the former Associate Director of the US intelligence agency FBI, revealed himself as the secret source named ‘Deep Throat’ that exposed the Watergate scandal in the US. The official secretly cooperated with Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to expose the scandal that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974

In 2005, more than three decades after the Watergate scandal shook the foundations of the White House and led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, the secret source behind the exposé known only as “Deep Throat” finally revealed his identity.

Meanwhile, back in 1962, Adolf Eichmann, a key architect of Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust, was executed in Israel following his conviction for crimes against humanity.

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When former FBI Assistant Director revealed himself as ‘Deep Throat’

More than 30 years after the Watergate scandal rocked the United States, W Mark Felt, once the Associate Director of the US intelligence agency FBI , publicly revealed in 2005 that he had been the mysterious source known as “...

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