Mark Felt - Deep Throat FBI Files/Nixon Recordings Published by PaperlessArchives.com

Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing of FBI files and President Richard Nixon audio recordings, related to Mark Felt, "Deep Throat", and the FBI's relationship with President Nixon.

Los Angeles, CA July 21, 2005 -- Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing of FBI files and President Richard Nixon audio recordings, related to Mark Felt, "Deep Throat", and the FBI's relationship with President Nixon.

This set can be accessed at http://www.paperlessarchives.com/mark_felt.html

These documents shed light on the effect of Mark Felt's leaks to the Washington Post on activities surrounding the Watergate scandal. Files show that Mark Felt was in charge of finding out the identity of the leak, later commonly referred to as "Deep Throat." Listing aids for each recording, to assist in the following of the subjects mentioned in the conversations have also been published.

Highlights from FBI Files:

* September 11, 1972 - In a memo, Mark Felt suggests that the FBI secrets being leaked maybe from a source outside of the FBI. Felt writes that Dade County prosecutor, Richard Gerstein, who was conducting a Watergate money trail investigation in Miami, might be the person leaking to the Washington Post.

* October 26, 1972 - In a memo, Mark Felt criticizes Woodward and Bernstein, who have informed the Justice Department that Washington field office agent Angelo J. Lano, was the source of a story containing false information about H.R. Haldeman.

* February 21, 1973 - In a memo, Mark Felt writes that the Washington Post stories were fiction and half truths.

* A FBI Office of Planning and Evaluation report on the conduct of the FBI during the Watergate investigation.

Highlights from the Audio Files:

* May 15, 1972 - A phone conversation between Mark Felt and President Nixon, concerning the assassination attempt against Governor George Wallace and the handling of the investigation.

* June 23, 1972 - The "Smoking Gun" Tape - Haldeman tells Nixon that the FBI is not under control, that Mark Felt will participate in the plans for a cover-up.

* October 19, 1972 - Haldeman tells President Nixon that somebody in the FBI, somebody next to Pat Gray, Mark Felt is leaking to the press. Haldeman and Nixon speculate on Felt's ethnicity/religious background. Haldeman says of Felt, "If we move on him, he will go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI."

* April 27, 1973 - Telephone conversation between the President and Richard G. Kleindienst following Patrick Gray's resignation, on Nixon's objection to Mark Felt, and Nixon's choice of William D. Ruckelshaus as acting director of the FBI.

May 12, 1973 - Telephone conversation between the President and Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Nixon tells Haig that Felt is a traitor. Nixon says he has learned from a lawyer at Time magazine, that Felt leaked information about the Daniel Ellsberg case.

The files and audio files can be download at http://www.paperlessarchives.com/mark_felt.html

About Mark Felt

William Mark Felt, Sr. (born August 17, 1913) is a former agent and top official of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. During the early investigation of the Watergate scandal (1972-1974), Felt was Associate Director, the second-ranking post in the FBI. In 2005, he was revealed to have been the informant known as Deep Throat, who provided Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads on the story that eventually saw the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. Felt was convicted in 1980 of violating the civil rights of several associates of members of the Weather Underground by ordering burglaries of their homes. He received a fine but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal. His identity as Woodward and Bernstein's source was a secret for three decades and the source of much speculation in American politics and popular culture. Vanity Fair magazine revealed Felt was Deep Throat on 31 May 2005 when it published an article (eventually appearing in the July issue of the magazine) on its website by John D. O'Connor, an attorney acting on Felt's behalf, in which Felt said, "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat."

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