Watergate Papers Have Just Been Released - Who Leaked What When?

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Watergate Papers: Who Leaked What When?

By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Tuesday, April 10, 2007; Page C03

With the Valerie Plame case behind us, we have a chance to revisit the names leaked by the granddaddy of all tipsters: Mark Felt, a.k.a. "Deep Throat." And yes: Robert Novak is there, too.

The original notes from Bob Woodward's famous meetings with Felt have just been released by the University of Texas, which paid Woodward and Carl Bernstein $5 million for the Watergate papers in 2003 -- with a provision that confidential sources would be protected until they die or go public. Felt revealed his identity in 2005, and the online exhibition now includes eight pages of typed notes from Woodward's conversations with him -- identified as "X" or "my friend" -- and two handwritten pages of an on-the-record interview he gave for another story.

Deep Throat calls G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt "the lowest," and Jeb Magruder an "SOB." Our favorite? Dish from the Oct. 9, 1972, garage meeting, where Woodward met his old friend at 1:30 a.m. and spent more than four hours talking. Felt says that Martha Mitchell didn't know anything "but that doesn't mean she won't talk" and that Nixon's men leaked information to the New York Times, Washington Post, Jack Anderson and . . . Novak, who at the time wrote a political column with Rowland Evans. That means the Prince of Darkness has been getting leaks from the White House for 35 years -- gotta be some kind of record.

Felt never allowed Woodward to take notes while they talked, so the Washington Post reporter typed highlights of the meetings from memory. "I was young," Woodward told us yesterday. "Some things you remember." (The only 1:30 a.m. notes we have are scribbled on soggy cocktail napkins -- and we're still trying to decipher them.) And there'll be more revelations in the future: The collection includes some interesting names and files of sources who are still living. Says Woodward: "There are going to be surprises."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041000055.html


http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/woodstein/deepthroat/index2.html

[napi21]

1. Oh man, just seeing those names in print, together, brings back

the memories of THOSE old hearings from many years ago. E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, and Jeb Mugruder were names in EVERY news broadcast for what seemed like MONTHS!

I want to see Shrub go through that same sh*t, but I sure don't look forward to months of hearings like those old ones were!