[Vision2020] W. Mark Felt, Watergate 'Deep Throat,' dies at 95

[Kenneth Marcy]

Of the many stories and obituaries now on-line, this one mentions the 
University of Idaho: http://tinyurl.com/4cvoox

W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official who ended one of the country's most 
intriguing political mysteries when he identified himself as "Deep Throat" -- 
the nickname for the anonymous source who helped guide the Washington Post's 
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Watergate scandal -- has died. 
He was 95.

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After graduating in 1935, he attended night classes at George Washington 
University Law School. After earning a law degree in 1940, he was hired at 
the Federal Trade Commission but found the work tedious.

Friends urged him to apply at the FBI, and he was accepted. After completing 
16 weeks of training, Felt was stationed in several field offices before 
being assigned to the espionage section in Washington to track down World War 
II spies. After the war, he oversaw background checks of workers at a Seattle 
plutonium plant.

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I wonder whether the reporter has placed part of the Hanford facilities on the 
western side of the Cascade mountains, rather than its correct location, or 
whether there really was plutonium work in Seattle back in those days.


Ken