THE WASHINGTON POST, D.C. June 1, 2005

• W. Mark Felt "Deep Throat" revealed
• Whistleblower on the Watergate Scandal

The front page has the headline that reads: "FBI's No. 2 Was 'Deep Throat'" and more with four related photos. (see images) Much more on the inside pages. Nice to have from the nation's capital.
Complete 1st section only with all 20 pages, nice condition.

Background: The May 31, 2005 revelation that 91-year-old former FBI Associate Director W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat" stands as an extraordinarily rare moment in political history, unmasking the most famous anonymous whistleblower of all time and solving a thirty-three-year-old mystery that had consumed Washington insider culture since the Watergate scandal. What made the content of this disclosure so remarkable was not merely the confirmation of Felt’s identity—published via a Vanity Fair article by his family’s attorney and swiftly corroborated by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and editor Ben Bradlee—but the astonishing degree of operational security that had kept it hidden across three decades. As the FBI's second-in-command during the 1972 investigation, Felt possessed unprecedented top-level access to federal intelligence, using spy-craft tradecraft such as signaling Woodward through potted plants on a balcony and conducting clandestine late-night exchanges in a Rosslyn, Virginia underground parking garage to guide investigative reporting without leaving a paper trail. This revelation reshaped the historical narrative of the Watergate scandal, confirming that the critical leaks dismantling President Richard Nixon's administration originated not from a mid-level partisan operative, but from the absolute highest echelons of federal law enforcement acting in secret to counter Executive Branch obstruction.