"But Woodward’s tale of him setting up a meeting with Felt in early November via the flower pot, when Felt disclosed the “suspicious” erasure, is an obvious lie. Felt had retired from the FBI approximately six months before their purported meeting in early November, and he was living in Virginia."
"But Woodward’s tale of him setting up a meeting with Felt in early November via the flower pot, when Felt disclosed the “suspicious” erasure, is an obvious lie. Felt had retired from the FBI approximately six months before their purported meeting in early November, and he was living in Virginia."
Easily explained: It was Sally Quinn who watched the apartment balcony. She and Bradlee were by then already effectively living together in Dupont Circle just around the corner. Woodward would put out the flag, and she would spot it and inform Bradlee, who would then get word eventually to Deep Throat, i.e. Moynihan, then (1972, going to India as Ambassador in February '73) mostly in Cambridge.
The reason, in other words, "Ben [Bradlee] never asked for the name of the source," as Woodward has said, is because he already knew. The message system was a secure, closed loop across Moynihan, Bradlee, Quinn, Graham (probably) and Woodward.
Also I think by November '73 Woodward had moved from Dupont Circle to SW DC, as described in ATPM.
"According to Woodward's book, All the President's Men, he had at least fifteen conversations with Deep Throat while investigating the Watergate scandal. This included communications on 19th June (2 phone calls); 16th September, 1972 (phone call); 8th October, 1972 (phone call); 9th October, 1972 (garage meeting); 21st October, 1972 (garage meeting), 27th October, 1972 (garage meeting), late December, 1972 (undisclosed), 25th January, 1973 (garage meeting); 25th February, 1973 (meeting in bar); 16th April, 1973 (phone call); 16th May, 1973 (garage meeting) and a meeting during the first week of November, 1973."
As to the last four, note that Moynihan arrived in India on or about the 22nd of February 1973. Woodward may have moved back the date of the February meeting a few days to the 25th to obscure the linkage. (Recall Bradlee once said he wondered whether the identity of Deep Throat could be determined by plugging into a computer a set of data including who was in town, when, implying perhaps that DT was not ordinarily in town (DC).) After arriving in India, Moynihan made multiple trips back to the States over the next months, including, again, to DC in the first week of November, 1973.
"But Woodward’s tale of him setting up a meeting with Felt in early November via the flower pot, when Felt disclosed the “suspicious” erasure, is an obvious lie. Felt had retired from the FBI approximately six months before their purported meeting in early November, and he was living in Virginia."
Easily explained: It was Sally Quinn who watched the apartment balcony. She and Bradlee were by then already effectively living together in Dupont Circle just around the corner. Woodward would put out the flag, and she would spot it and inform Bradlee, who would then get word eventually to Deep Throat, i.e. Moynihan, then (1972, going to India as Ambassador in February '73) mostly in Cambridge.
The reason, in other words, "Ben [Bradlee] never asked for the name of the source," as Woodward has said, is because he already knew. The message system was a secure, closed loop across Moynihan, Bradlee, Quinn, Graham (probably) and Woodward.
Also I think by November '73 Woodward had moved from Dupont Circle to SW DC, as described in ATPM.
"According to Woodward's book, All the President's Men, he had at least fifteen conversations with Deep Throat while investigating the Watergate scandal. This included communications on 19th June (2 phone calls); 16th September, 1972 (phone call); 8th October, 1972 (phone call); 9th October, 1972 (garage meeting); 21st October, 1972 (garage meeting), 27th October, 1972 (garage meeting), late December, 1972 (undisclosed), 25th January, 1973 (garage meeting); 25th February, 1973 (meeting in bar); 16th April, 1973 (phone call); 16th May, 1973 (garage meeting) and a meeting during the first week of November, 1973."
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdeepthroat.htm
As to the last four, note that Moynihan arrived in India on or about the 22nd of February 1973. Woodward may have moved back the date of the February meeting a few days to the 25th to obscure the linkage. (Recall Bradlee once said he wondered whether the identity of Deep Throat could be determined by plugging into a computer a set of data including who was in town, when, implying perhaps that DT was not ordinarily in town (DC).) After arriving in India, Moynihan made multiple trips back to the States over the next months, including, again, to DC in the first week of November, 1973.