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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (50711)	5/1/2002 12:32:46 AM
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Ex-Nixon Aide Dean to Reveal 'Deep Throat' Guess Tue Apr 30, 4:48 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lots of people have theories on the identity of "Deep Throat," the famous Watergate whisperer who helped spell the end of the Nixon presidency. Now, former Nixon White House Counsel and key Watergate player John Dean will take his stab at cracking Washington's mystery of the century, releasing "The Deep Throat Brief" as an e-book through online magazine publisher Salon in June. "We think it's a persuasive argument, or we wouldn't be publishing it," Salon's managing editor Scott Rosenberg said on Tuesday. Dean -- whose 1973 Senate testimony helped to force Nixon's 1974 resignation -- will release his 40,000-word manuscript on June 17, the 30th anniversary of the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites)'s Watergate headquarters. Dean told the San Francisco Chronicle he spent some 20 years going through archives and tapes to develop his theory on "Deep Throat," the mystery source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein blow open the Watergate case. "I thought that 30 years of hiding was long enough," Dean said. "It's a great brainteaser, and an avocational pursuit that I finally got serious about buttoning up for the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in." Dean will join a growing list of journalists, historians and political conspiracy theorists who have sought to uncloak "Deep Throat" -- whose identity Woodward and Bernstein have vowed to keep secret. Among those fingered as possible suspects are such figures as Nixon Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, former White House staffer and current network anchorwoman Diane Sawyer and one-time Nixon law partner Leonard Garment. Dean, who served 127 days in prison for his part in the Watergate cover-up, said his Deep Throat investigation was inspired by his desire to figure out who brought his former boss down. "There's one person who's headed into Richard Nixon's eternal history who outranks me as his worst enemy, and that's Deep Throat," Dean told the Chronicle. "Nixon said Dean was a traitor and Deep Throat was even worse. I wanted to visit with this person."