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December 1. 8, 2. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)special agent who served as the Bureau's Associate Director, the FBI's second- highest- ranking post, from May 1. FBI in June 1. 97. During his time as Associate Director, Felt served as an anonymous informant, nicknamed "Deep Throat", to reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post, providing them critical information about the Watergate scandal, a scandal which ultimately led to the resignation of President.

Richard M. Nixon in 1. Though Felt's identity as Deep Throat was strongly suspected by some in Washington, including Nixon himself,[2] and was speculated by many others, it generally remained a secret for the next 3. In 2. 00. 5, Felt finally acknowledged that he was Deep Throat, after being persuaded to reveal his identity by his family.[3]Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's headquarters in Washington, D. C. In 1. 98. 0, Felt was convicted of having violated the civil rights of people thought to be associated with members of the Weather Underground, by ordering FBI agents to break into their homes and search the premises as part of an attempt to prevent bombings. He was ordered to pay a fine, but was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan during his appeal. Felt published two memoirs: The FBI Pyramid in 1.

A G- Man's Life, written with John O'Connor, in 2. In 2. 01. 2, the FBI released Felt's personnel file at the agency, covering the period from 1.

It also released files pertaining to an extortion threat made against Felt in 1. Early life and career[edit]Born on August 1.

Twin Falls, Idaho,[5] Felt was the son of carpenter and building contractor Mark Earl Felt and his wife, the former Rose R. Dygert.[6] His paternal grandfather was a Free Will Baptist minister.[7] His maternal grandparents were born in Canada and Scotland. Through his maternal grandfather, Felt was related to Revolutionary War general Nicholas Herkimer.[7] After graduating from Twin Falls High School in 1. Felt attended the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho,[8] and was a member and president of the Gamma Gamma chapter of the Beta Theta Pifraternity.[9] He received a BA in 1. Felt went to Washington, D.

C., to work in the office of Democratic U. S. Senator. James P. Pope. In 1. 93. 8, Felt married Audrey Robinson of Gooding, Idaho, whom he had known when they were students at UI.[1. She had come to Washington to work at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and they were wed by the chaplain of the United States House of Representatives, the Rev. Sheara Montgomery.[1. Audrey, who died in 1.

Felt had two children, Joan and Mark. Felt stayed on with Pope's successor in the Senate, David Worth Clark (D- Idaho).[1. Felt attended the George Washington University Law School at night, earned his law degree in 1. District of Columbia bar in 1.

Upon graduation, Felt took a position at the Federal Trade Commission but did not enjoy the work. His workload was very light, and he was assigned a case to investigate whether or not a toilet paper brand, called "Red Cross", was misleading consumers into thinking it was endorsed by the American Red Cross. Felt wrote in his memoir: My research, which required days of travel and hundreds of interviews, produced two definite conclusions: 1.

Most people did use toilet tissue. Most people did not appreciate being asked about it.

That was when I started looking for other employment.[1. He applied for a job with the FBI in November 1. His first day at the Bureau was January 2.

Early FBI years[edit]FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover often moved Bureau agents around so they would have wide experience. Felt observed that Hoover "wanted every agent to get into any field office at any time. Since he [Hoover] had never been transferred and did not have a family, he had no idea of the financial and personal hardship involved."[1. After completing sixteen weeks of training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia, and FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC., Felt was first assigned to Texas, working in the field offices in Houston and San Antonio, spending three months in each.

He then returned to FBI Headquarters, and was assigned to the Espionage Section of the Domestic Intelligence Division, tracking down spies and saboteurs during World War II, where he worked on the Major Case Desk. His most notable work there was on the "Peasant" case.

Helmut Goldschmidt, operating under the codename "Peasant", was a German agent in custody in England. Under Felt's direction, his German masters were informed "Peasant" had made his way to the United States, and thus were fed disinformation on Allied plans.[1. The Espionage Section was abolished in May 1. V- E Day. After the war, Felt was sent again to a field office, first to Seattle, Washington. After two years of general work, he spent two years as a firearms instructor and was promoted from agent to supervisor.

Upon passage of the Atomic Energy Act and the creation of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the Seattle office became responsible for completing background checks of workers at the Hanfordplutonium plant near Richland, Washington. Felt oversaw these checks.[1. Watch Macgruber Online Full Movie. In 1. 95. 4, Felt returned briefly to Washington as an inspector's aide. Two months later, he was sent to New Orleans, Louisiana, as assistant special agent in charge of the field office.

When he was transferred to Los Angeles, California, fifteen months later, he held the same rank there.[1. Investigates organized crime[edit]In 1. Felt was transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah and promoted to Special Agent in Charge.

The Salt Lake Office included Nevada within its purview, and while there, Felt oversaw some of the Bureau's earliest investigations into organized crime with the Mob's operations in the Reno and Las Vegascasinos.[1. It was Hoover's, and therefore the Bureau's, official position at the time that there was no such thing as the Mob.)[1. In February 1. 95. Felt went to Kansas City, Missouri, in his memoir dubbed "the Siberia of field offices",[1.

By this time, Hoover was compelled to change his mind about the existence of organized crime, in the wake of the famous Apalachin, New York, conclave of underworld bosses in November 1. Middle career[edit]J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, photographed in 1.

Hoover appointed Felt the third- ranking official in the Bureau in 1. Felt returned to Washington, D.

C., in September 1. As assistant to the bureau's assistant director in charge of the Training Division, Felt helped oversee the FBI Academy.[2. In November 1. 96.

Assistant Director of the Bureau, as Chief Inspector of the Bureau and Head of the Inspection Division.[2. This division oversaw compliance with Bureau regulations and conducted internal investigations. Watch The Night Before The Night Before Christmas Megavideo.

On July 1, 1. 97. Felt was promoted by Hoover to Deputy Associate Director, assisting Associate Director Clyde Tolson.[2. Hoover's right- hand man for decades, Tolson was in failing health and no longer able to attend to his duties.

Richard Gid Powers wrote that Hoover installed Felt to rein in William C. Sullivan's domestic spying operations, as Sullivan had been engaged in secret unofficial work for the White House. In his memoir, Felt quoted Hoover as having said, "I need someone who can control Sullivan. I think you know he has been getting out of hand."[2. In his book, The Bureau, Ronald Kessler said that Felt "managed to please Hoover by being tactful with him and tough on agents."[2.