Gilpatric had been steering Nixon and Haldeman toward Felt in the first place, as discussed in the Oct 19, 1972 tapes, to throw Nixon off any trail that might lead to the real Deep Throat (Moynihan). See Max Holland, https://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/11/richard-nixons-own-deep-throat.html. No defense of Holland intended here,…
Gilpatric had been steering Nixon and Haldeman toward Felt in the first place, as discussed in the Oct 19, 1972 tapes, to throw Nixon off any trail that might lead to the real Deep Throat (Moynihan). See Max Holland, https://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/11/richard-nixons-own-deep-throat.html. No defense of Holland intended here, but he did get that part -- that Gilpatric was pointing Haldeman/Ehrlichman/Nixon to Felt -- correct. The question is why. The answer, again, both then and now, is to throw off any identification of the real Deep Throat.
"However, in addition to being presented in sworn testimony, the Time-Gilpatric leak was alluded to during a February 16, 1973 tape-recorded meeting of President Nixon, FBI acting director Gray, and senior White House adviser John Ehrlichman, and again on February 27 during a meeting between the president and John Dean. More likely than not, Gilpatric learned about Felt from John F. Dowd, a former Cravath associate who was the full-time editorial counsel at Time in 1972."
Gilpatric had been steering Nixon and Haldeman toward Felt in the first place, as discussed in the Oct 19, 1972 tapes, to throw Nixon off any trail that might lead to the real Deep Throat (Moynihan). See Max Holland, https://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/11/richard-nixons-own-deep-throat.html. No defense of Holland intended here, but he did get that part -- that Gilpatric was pointing Haldeman/Ehrlichman/Nixon to Felt -- correct. The question is why. The answer, again, both then and now, is to throw off any identification of the real Deep Throat.
"However, in addition to being presented in sworn testimony, the Time-Gilpatric leak was alluded to during a February 16, 1973 tape-recorded meeting of President Nixon, FBI acting director Gray, and senior White House adviser John Ehrlichman, and again on February 27 during a meeting between the president and John Dean. More likely than not, Gilpatric learned about Felt from John F. Dowd, a former Cravath associate who was the full-time editorial counsel at Time in 1972."
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