Deep Throat's Parking Garage
In a nondescript parking garage in Rosslyn, Mark Felt, second in command at the FBI, met Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward six times between October 1972 and November 1973 to discuss the Watergate scandal.
In a nondescript parking garage in Rosslyn, Mark Felt, second in command at the FBI, met Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward six times between October 1972 and November 1973 to discuss the Watergate scandal. For years his identify was a secret and he went by the pseudonym "Deep Throat."
Felt provided Woodward information that exposed the Nixon administration’s obstruction of the FBI’s Watergate investigation. He chose the garage as an anonymous and secure location. Bob Woodward shared Felt's information with Carl Bernstein, another reporter Washington Post.
Woodward would receive a signal to meet "Deep Throat" via a flowerpot with a red flag placed on the balcony of the secret source's apartment, after which the two would rendezvous in the famous garage. Often they met on the bottom level of the underground garage at 2:00 a.m. where Felt shared details about the involvement of U.S. president Richard Nixon's administration.
In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had previously denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim.
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