DEEP THROAT

(Please, bear in mind that this entry is not about the actual identity of Watergate’s Deep Throat, of which I have no certain knowledge even today, after the alleged exposure of Mr. Felt as the one, which frankly I am still rather skeptical about. This entry is about perceptions only, and as the strictly unofficial perceptions of the Watergate scandal in official Moscow of that time do represent a certain historical value, for the record, it is only with this purpose in mind that I am presently performing this minor public service.)

Dr. Henry Kissinger as the Nixon-slayer, that is, the Deep Throat of Watergate?!

This may be another one of the too many items which may never be published, due to their explosive nature, but as a statement of record in a book whose pressing objective doesn’t include immediate publication, this is something that ought not to be withheld.

There was never any doubt among my high-placed Soviet colleagues in Moscow as to the proper identity of the person denoted by the code word Deep Throat of Watergate fame. “It is not accidental,” they chuckled, “that the phrase Deep Throat has a double (and if we wish to be uncharitable, triple) meaning. Why call a person Deep Throat if his deep-throated voice has not struck you as his most distinctive physical feature?”

With this argument in mind, adding some perfectly pertinent professional observations to the whole picture, all fingers inevitably pointed in the direction of Henry Kissinger, and I am convinced that despite the recent most disingenuous attribution of the Deep Throat fame to Mark Felt of the FBI, the latter’s lame confession could not change a single mind in Moscow as to the identity of the real Deep Throat.

… Maybe a few years down the road, after Dr. Kissinger’s inevitable demise (we all have to go some day!), Mr. Bob Woodward will write another mystery thriller on the true identity of his celebrated source?