Daily Archives: October 9, 2012

’Deep Throat’ provides explosive information about White House plan to subvert elections 40 years ago this hour (1972)


Video: Oct. 9, 1972 (at 11:35)

(Monday, October 9, 1972, at around 2 a.m. EDT, during the Watergate scandal)Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met his FBI source (later known to be Associate FBI Director W. Mark Felt, referred to as “Deep Throat” at this time) in the underground parking garage in Roslyn, Virginia. Felt tells Woodward that employees of the committee to re-elect President Nixon were not only the behind the Watergate break-in but are also deeply involved in all kinds of political sabotage against Nixon’s enemies.