Squinting through deep throat

According to an April 28, , article in Slate , [1] in a Playboy interview with Lukas, [ citation needed ] Woodward had denied that Deep Throat was part of the "intelligence community". Howard Simons , the managing editor of the Post during Watergate, dubbed the secret informant "Deep Throat", alluding to both the deep background status of his information, and the then widely publicized pornographic film Deep Throat. Instead of seeking out prosecutors at the Justice Department, or the House Judiciary Committee charged with investigating presidential wrongdoing, he methodically leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein to guide their investigation while keeping his own identity and involvement safely concealed. But fate is not always so kind. The plot twists and turns, with an O. A Hunt for Justice:

Federal Bureau of Investigation. Howard Hunt , whose name in the notebooks was accompanied by the inscriptions "W House" and "W. He was a civil servant and assigned throughout the U.