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This story isn't getting as much press as I thought it would. Neither Slashdot nor BoingBoing has anything about it. Anyhow, from the Chicago Tribune:

The world's most famous anonymous news source outed himself Tuesday. W. Mark Felt, a 91-year-old retired FBI official living with his daughter in California, revealed perhaps Washington's best-kept secret--that he was Deep Throat, the secret source for the reporting by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that helped break open the Watergate scandal leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.... Tuesday evening, Woodward, Bernstein and their former editor, Ben Bradlee, confirmed Felt's role.

I don't know why this story is getting so little press, but I'm both glad to see the mystery resolved and sad to have it gone. I sort of thought we'd never know. Anyhow, it seems like the University of Illinois Champaigne-Urbana might want to take down this website.

Posted by briley at June 1, 2005 8:49 AM