print email comment close Finder's Guide to Deep Throat URL: http://www.media.illinois.edu/spike/deepthroat/ Description: A four-year project conducted by journalism students and their professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign to determine the identity of Deep Throat, the insider who provided crucial information about the Watergate break-in to Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein. Students ultimately but incorrectly concluded that former White House deputy counsel Fred Fielding was Deep Throat. Includes discussion of how students came to their erroneous conclusion. Extra Keywords Felt Library of Congress Subject Headings: Investigative reporting Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 LII Database Information: Record 13579 created by Dana Lubow on 05/03/2003 Last modification on 06/27/2009 Published: 06/27/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13579