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Sat 12 Dec 2008Watergate's 'Deep Throat' dies aged 95
Mark Felt, the mysterious "Deep Throat" source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein crack the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon, has died at age 95.
Mr Felt suffered from congestive heart failure, but the exact cause of his death at home on Thursday was not immediately known, the Press Democrat newspaper in Santa Rosa, California, said. The New York Timescalled him "the most famous anonymous source in American history".
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