Deep Throat not Jewish after all

The JTA points out that that Mark Felt’s admission that he was “Deep Throat” puts to rest rumors that the Washington Post’s inside source on Watergate was Jewish. Felt, then the FBI’s deputy chief, is of Irish descent with no religious affiliation.

In a 1972 conversation recorded on the Nixon tapes, top aide H.R. Haldeman tells the president that Felt is Jewish. Nixon expresses shock that a Jew could have reached such a senior post, and speculates that Felt — J. Edgar Hoover’s right-hand man — might be leaking information because he is Jewish.