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Deep Throat

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  • noun A secret informant possessing valuable information, especially one who stays secret long after the incident in question is concluded.

Etymologies

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First used as the secret identity of W. Mark Felt, who used this alias to supply reporters with valuable information about the Watergate scandal.

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  • Information about the writer was monitored by the FBI's highest echelons, including one-time acting director Mark Felt, best known as Deep Throat, and associate director Clyde Tolson.

    NYCity News Service: FBI Files: Solzhenitsyn Lived in Fear After Exile NYCity News Service 2010

  • The man we all came to know as Deep Throat died yesterday at his California home, after a life in the shadows.

    CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2008 2008

  • "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he allegedly said to them.

    Nora Ephron: Deep Throat and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either 2008

  • Mark Felt better known as Deep Throat was the whistleblower who helped expose the Watergate scandal and bring down the Nixon White House.

    CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2008 2008

  • COSTELLO (voice-over): Mark Felt, the once secret source known as Deep Throat, in his only TV interview told CNN's Larry King he doesn't regret his role in bringing the Watergate scandal to light.

    CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2006 2006

  • Third topic, Tara, Mark Felt, the man formerly known as Deep Throat, his family signed with a talent firm out in California.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005 2005

  • Obituary: Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, the informant who helped to crack the Watergate scandal dies aged 95

    The Guardian World News Roy Greenslade 2010

  • Few people personify the phrase "you can't make this stuff up" better than former associate FBI director W. Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, who died yesterday at the age of 95.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Few people personify the phrase "you can't make this stuff up" better than former associate FBI director W. Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, who died yesterday at the age of 95.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • The death last week of Mark Felt - best known as Deep Throat, the FBI guy who spilled the beans on Watergate - has prompted some media praise for those rare civil servants who blow the whistle on government perfidy.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2009

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