Money Called a Factor in Revealing ‘Deep Throat’

The daughter of the ex-FBI official who was revealed last week as “Deep Throat” has acknowledged that money played a role in the decision to go public.

W. Mark Felt, 91, was the mysterious source used by Washington Post reporters in their investigation into the Watergate break-in, which led to the resignation of President Nixon.

Joan Felt, 61, said in an interview in the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa that her family had many reasons for revealing her father’s role in Watergate, but that she wouldn’t “deny that to make money is one of them.”

Some literary agents have said the family could earn more than $1 million from a book deal.