who was deep throat watergate

The secret informant known as "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal was Mark Felt, who was the associate director and later deputy director of the FBI in the early 1970s. Felt provided critical information to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which helped uncover the involvement of President Richard Nixon's administration in the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up. Mark Felt revealed his identity as Deep Throat in 2005, more than 30 years after the Watergate scandal. At the time of the scandal, he was in a key position within the FBI and secretly passed information to the reporters to expose the abuses of presidential power. His role was instrumental in the investigation that ultimately led to Nixon's resignation in 1974.