Fielding served as deputy to White House counsel John W. Dean III under President Richard M. Nixon and was the first to tell Dean about the Watergate break-in. Yet Fielding was one of the few to emerge untainted by Watergate. In fact, he was suspected, wrongly, of being "Deep Throat," the inside source who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the scandal.
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Ah! I got my four-lettered "F"s mixed up. It seems Deep Throat was "Felt", not "Fred"--W. Mark Felt. The names are sufficiently similar that they registered to the same place in my brain.
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You weren't so wrong, considering he was suspected of being "Deep Throat". An easy mistake to make.