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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12645)	8/1/2004 9:28:02 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

HWL...Good one! Fred LaRue, rumoured 'Deep Throat' of Nixon era, dead at 75 BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Fred LaRue, a Watergate scandal figure and high-ranking official in the administration of the late president Richard Nixon who once was rumoured to be Deep Throat, has died of natural causes. He was 75. His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi, Coroner Gary Hargrove said. The coroner said he believes LaRue died Saturday. LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate break-in quiet and served 4 1/2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice. LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell, the former U.S. attorney general who later headed Nixon's re-election committee. LaRue was present at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder at Nixon's vacation home in Key Biscayne, Fla., where the plan to break into the Watergate complex in Washington allegedly was hatched. LaRue said he advised against the burglarization of the building, which housed Democratic party headquarters. After his political career ended in scandal, LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's oil company and with its real-estate holdings. LaRue discounted rumours he was Deep Throat, saying the mysterious source for Washington Post newspaper reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was not one person but probably a combination of several people. cnews.canoe.ca