Washington Post connects Watergate break-in with White House 40 years ago today (1972)


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(Monday, June 19, 1972) — Based on a tip from Deep Throat, the pseudonym given to a secret informant (later identified as Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt), Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward discovered today that one of the Watergate burglars had E. Howard Hunt in his address book and possessed checks signed by him, and that Hunt was connected to White House aide Charles Colson.