Ex-FBI Director Gray Said to Be ‘Deep Throat’
CBS News, in a documentary Wednesday night on the Watergate affair, speculated that L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI, was “Deep Throat,” the key source for the Washington Post in the affair.
Deep Throat’s identity has been a mystery since the character emerged in the book, “All the President’s Men,” written by Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the Watergate break-in. Gray, who declined to be interviewed for the documentary, has denied being Deep Throat.
It’s the “one great secret in the whole world,” Bernstein told CBS correspondent Mike Wallace in the two-hour show “Watergate: The Secret Story.”
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