“What would you think the odds were that this town could keep that secret for this long?”

—  W. Mark Felt

Benjamin C. Bradlee, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post, who, along with Woodward and Bernstein, were the only ones publicly known to know the identity of "Deep Throat."

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Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal 1913–2008

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