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| 1913 | Birth |  |
| 17th Aug Birth of Mark Felt |
| 1971 | FBI |  |
| 1st July Appointed Deputy Associate Director of the FBI, assisting Associate Director Clyde Tolson |
| 1972 | Deep Throat |  |
| Watergate Felt provides Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads that see the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 |
| 1972 | FBI |  |
| Appointed Associate Director of the FBI, 2nd highest office in the FBI |
| 1972 | Watergate |  |
| Watergate Felt provides Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads that see the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974 |
| Watergate Only Woodward, Bernstein, and a handful of others knew the informant's identity until it was revealed by his family to Vanity Fair magazine as former FBI Assistant Director W. Mark Felt in May 2005 |
| 1995 | Deep Throat |  |
| Watergate Butterfield coorectly identifies "Deep Throsat" to the Hartford Courant, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt" |
| 1995 | Watergate |  |
| Watergate Butterfield coorectly identifies "Deep Throsat" to the Hartford Courant, "I think it was a guy named Mark Felt" |
| 2005 | Deep Throat |  |
| 31st May Watergate Former assistant FBI director Mark Felt announces that he was "Deep Throat," the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal |
| 31st May Watergate The admission takes even legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who had promised to keep their source's identity a secret until his death, by surprise |
| 2005 | Watergate |  |
| 31st May Watergate Former assistant FBI director Mark Felt announces that he was "Deep Throat," the secret source who helped unravel the Watergate scandal |
| 31st May Watergate The admission takes even legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who had promised to keep their source's identity a secret until his death, by surprise |