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VOLUME CLXIX, NUMBER 152
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2005
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W. Mark Felt: ‘I Was Deep Throat’
He has been called the most famous anonymous person
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in U.S. history. For three decades the former No. 2 FBI official denied
– even to his own family – that he was the source who helped the
Washington Post break open the Watergate scandal that felled President
Nixon in 1974. “No, it’s not me,” he told The Courant in 1999. But on
Tuesday, W. Mark Felt, (right) now 91 and living with his daughter
in California, ended one of Washington’s most tantalizing mysteries.
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Watergate Informant
Breaks 30-Year Silence
Combined Wire Services
Mark Felt’s relatives let out a whoop of joy in
Santa Rosa, Calif., Tuesday afternoon when they
heard the bombshell announcement: The Washington Post had confirmed that Felt, the family’s 91year-old patriarch, was indeed the paper’s Watergate-era informant known as Deep Throat.
For Felt’s daughter, Joan, and her two sons, the
Post’s announcement was validation amid an extraordinary media frenzy.
Vanity Fair magazine released an article Tuesday identifying Felt, the former No. 2 man at the
FBI, as the shadowy figure who helped Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein piece together the Watergate puzzle.
Caught flatfooted by Vanity Fair’s announcePLEASE SEE ‘DEEP THROAT’, PAGE A8
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‘It’s Not Me’:
A former
Courant
reporter
remembers
when Felt lied
to him about
his identity.
Also-Rans:
From Al Haig
to Henry
Kissinger,
the litany of
former Deep
Throat
“suspects” is
long.
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By JOHN JURGENSEN
COURANT STAFF WRITER
For Vanity Fair, Persistence Guides
A Shadowy Figure Into The Light
By RINKER BUCK
COURANT STAFF WRITER
David Friend, the editor of
creative development at Vanity
Fair, is well known in New
York magazine circles as a
journalist so tenacious that
he’ll work for more than a year
to obtain a single interview
with an elusive actress or politician.
So, two years ago, when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter
received a cold call from a California lawyer claiming to represent the famously anonymous “Deep Throat” of the
Watergate scandal, he knew
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The answer lies in a standing taboo against
condom commercials on the public airwaves
— one that may wane with the debut of a Trojan ad tonight on two major networks after 9
p.m.
But don’t expect to hear from “Trojan Man”
between breaks of “Supernanny” and “Law &
Order.” That character, an ersatz superhero
for the cause of pleasurable and protected sex,
has been featured in Trojan’s past radio, print
and cable TV campaigns, which relied on humor and double entendres.
Instead, the new Trojan campaign for broadcast television revolves around messages
about sexual health. The first ad features a
man and woman, amorous and out on the town.
They share a set of white headphones as they
nuzzle foreheads, their fingers entwined. To
the strumming of an acoustic guitar, a statistic
appears on the screen: “40 percent of people
right away where to turn.
“ ‘Hey, David, we’ve got a
lawyer here who says that Deep
Throat is finally ready to come
out. What do you think?’ ”
Friend recalls Carter telling
him.
“My first two thoughts were
that we get a lot of crank calls at
Vanity Fair from people making outrageous claims, and we
had to be very, very careful. My
second thought was that, right
off the bat, we were going to be
telling this lawyer and his client that there would be no
money. Period. We weren’t payPLEASE SEE TWO-YEAR, PAGE A9
PLEASE SEE CONDOM, PAGE A7
Landmark
Stem Cell
Financing
Bill Passes
By MARK PAZNIOKAS
COURANT STAFF WRITER
AP
AT TOP, W. MARK FELT and daughter Joan Felt wave to the media at their home Tuesday after it was confirmed that he was the long-anonymous source
known as “Deep Throat.” As second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, he fed reporters the inside information that helped lead to the resignation
of President Nixon, who is shown here, with family members at his side, bidding farewell to his Cabinet, aides and staff in August 1974.
Assembly, Rell Near
Budget Agreement
By CHRISTOPHER KEATING
CAPITOL BUREAU CHIEF
The state legislature could vote
on a compromise budget later this
week that pours millions of extra
dollars into cash-strapped municipalities and preserves the popular
HUSKY health insurance program
that is a top Democratic priority,
lawmakers said Tuesday.
In a breakthrough over the Memorial Day weekend, Gov. M. Jodi
Rell and Democratic legislators
made substantial progress on a
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spending framework that keeps
overall spending close to Rell’s proposed level of $15.27 billion for the
fiscal year that starts in July.
Democratic legislators had wanted
to spend more than $260 million
above Rell’s level in the next year.
House Speaker James Amann
cautioned that the tentative agreement is limited only to the spending
side of the budget, and lawmakers
had not yet reached a final agreement on taxes. Still, Amann dePLEASE SEE RELL, PAGE A5
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A Sacred Heart
athlete’s father is
charged with
first-degree assault for
allegedly hitting a
softball coach with a
bat. Sports, Page C1
L.A. Nonstop
Bradley International
Airport is restoring
nonstop flights to Los
Angeles.
Business, Page E1
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Life ................................................ D1
The House of Representatives gave overwhelming final approval Tuesday night to legislation committing $100 million to stem cell research in Connecticut.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell pledged to sign the bill and
make Connecticut the third state to finance
embryonic research opposed by President
Bush and the Catholic Church.
In nearly four hours of debate, the House
took up moral and scientific questions about
embryonic stem cell research that were ignored by the Senate before its passage of the
bill last week.
The embryonic research requires the destruction of days-old human embryos, which
proponents say would otherwise be discarded
by fertility clinics.
“Before asking, ‘Can we do it?’ perhaps we
should be asking, ‘Should we do it?’ ” said Rep.
Marilyn M. Giuliano, R-Old Saybrook.
PLEASE SEE STEM, PAGE A7
Groton Facility On Parade
Base Closing Panel Members Tour Submarine Center
By JESSE HAMILTON
COURANT STAFF WRITER
GROTON — Four commissioners from the
Base Realignment and Closure Commission
thudded into town under helicopter rotors Tuesday to tour the submarine base whose future
may rest in their hands. They are set to leave
this morning, after a sales pitch from sub base
advocates.
These four from the nine-member commission — BRAC Chairman and former Secretary
of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi, former
U.S. Rep. James H. Bilbray, former Assistant
Secretary of Defense Philip Coyle, and retired
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Air Force Gen. Lloyd “Fig” Newton from Connecticut — were anxiously received with the
close attention conferred on great dignitaries.
They had come to check out the Pentagon’s assertion that the historic base in Groton won’t be
needed by tomorrow’s military. After their fourhour tour, those who studied their every move
declared seeing some doubt among them. The
commissioners’ questions to their Navy guides
left spectators wondering whether they believed
the Pentagon estimate of the cost of closing the
base — especially rebuilding the vast submarine school in Georgia, which Navy officials
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Public Notices ............................. F8
Sports ........................................... C1
PLEASE SEE SUB BASE, PAGE A9
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