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You haven't got it. Moynihan was Deep Throat. Butterfield told Moynihan about the taping system. Butterfield (or Leonard Garment, more likely) told Moynihan about the 18-1/2 minute gap, the possible deliberate erasures. Moynihan told Woodward in November 1973, when he was in DC for about a week, before returning to India.

https://www.nixonfoundation.org/artifact/tape-923-conversation-5-923-005a/

Tape 923, Conversation 5 (923-005a)

Date: May 19, 1973

Time: Unknown between 11:02 am and 12:47 pm

Location: Oval Office

"Watergate

-President’s schedule

-Helms

-Haig’s recommendation

-Helms

-Conversation with Haig

-Helms’s testimony before Senate Foreign Relations Committee

-Equipment

-National Security Council [NSC] meeting

-Conversation with President concerning CIA involvement

-Helms’s possible resignation

-Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan

Moynihan

-Letter to Haig"

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