Woodward and Bernstein were able to break the Watergate story largely because of an anonymous source they called Deep Throat, who turned out to be
A) Nixon campaign official G. Gordon Liddy
B) Mark Felt, deputy director of the FBI
C) Former Kissinger aide Daniel Ellsberg
D) President Nixon

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Deep Throat was revealed in 2005 to be Mark Felt, who was deputy director of the FBI at the time of the Watergate scandal. He leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein in order to expose the corruption within the Nixon administration.

Woodward and Bernstein Were Able to Break the Watergate Story