Watergate'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 Times called him "the most famous anonymous source in American history".

Mr Felt, the number two official at the FBI when the Watergate case broke, kept his role in the story secret until 2005.

For three decades, people speculated about the identity of "Deep Throat", whose name was derived from the title of a popular pornographic movie. - ( Reuters )