From: cortez@milton.u.washington.edu (Tom Warner)
Subject: Re: "Deep Throat", who was he?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 11:46:54 GMT

t88_lars_e@maja.teknikum.uu.se (Pelle Hillberg) writes:

>Hi!
>I've just finished reading "All the President's Men" by Woodward and Bernstein.
>It was quite fascinating reading. Being born 1967, in Sweden, I
>didn't know much about the Watergate burglary and it's consequences.
>But now to the point. In the book, Woodward uses a "source" with codename "Deep
>Throat". Was it ever revealed who he/she was? It must have been someone quite
>high up in the current administration. W&B doesn't give many clues to whom he
>might be. The only one mentioned in the book who was close to the president and
>not (?) involved in the tapings etc. was Pat Buchanan.
>Does anybody know more?

	There are theories; no one has admitted to being "deep throat" as far
as I know and Woodward is committed to not telling.
	I know that Peter Dale Scott (UC Berkeley Professor and author on
Watergate, JFK conspiracy and "parapolitics" in general) is fully convinced
that "deep throat" was Robert Bennett, a CIA agent who had close links to the
Howard Hughes private intelligence organization.
	Bennett does seem like the obvious choice, given the CIA document
record, but one should remember that anyone could have said anything at the
time for all kinds of strange reasons, especially someone like Bennett.
	The 1975 House Committee on Armed Services' "Inquiry into
the Alleged Involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Watergate
and Ellsburg Matters" reproduced for the public in its Hearings volume an
interesting little document known as the "Eisenstadt Memorandum," in which the
CIA's Chief/Central Cover Staff informs the Deputy Director of Plans that:
"Mr. Bennett said also that he has been feeding stories to Bob Woodward of the
Washington Post with the understanding that there be no attribution to Bennett.
Woodward is suitably grateful for the fine stories and by-lines which he gets
and protects Bennett (and the Mullen Company) ... he stated his opinion that
the Ervin Committee investigating the Watergate incident would not involve
the company. He said that, if necessary, he could have his father, Senator
Bennett of Utah, intercede with Senator Ervin. His conclusion then was he
could handle the Ervin committee if the Agency can handle Howard Hunt."

	I found this citation in Peter Dale Scott's essay "Crime and Cover-Up;
The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection" published by Westworks
in 1977. Scott is primarily interested in Bennett as a player in the grey area
between goverment intelligence, private intelligence and organized crime that
such things as Watergate and the JFK assassination necessarily involve.
	Scott also recommends Howard Kohn (Rolling Stone, May 20, 1976) as a
Watergate journalist.

>Lars-Erik Hillberg, Uppsala, Sweden
>Email: t88_lars_e@maja.teknikum.uu.se
>**All that glitters has a high refractive index***

Tom Warner, University of Washington
cortez@milton.uw.edu

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