Nixon 'Far Worse' Than Thought Say Watergate Reporters

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37. I think there was much more to Mark Felt than we know right now.

Felt was a man with considerable counterespionage and background-checking experience that would have put him in close touch with MI5, MI6, OSS, then later the AEC, and... others. He had wide experience in plenty of other places after that, but his cozy relationship with the larger intelligence community would have long since been cemented by the time he returned to DC as the FBI's internal investigator. (To whom would he turn when conducting internal counterespionage investigations, eh? Who tips him off in the first place?)

Felt "just happened" to meet short-timer Naval Intelligence officer Bob Woodward in a White House waiting room in 1970. Woodward was wondering what to do when he got out, and they had a chat about it.

According to Woodward, he decided to keep in touch with Felt as a mentor and career adviser before he left the Navy.

Almost as if Woodward was being developed by someone. Then... someone... got pissed when Richard Nixon tried to pin the blame for Watergate on... someone other than his own people. And Woodward got the story from a guy who knew more than he should have.

Then Poppy Bush got called in to sanitize the CIA's files.

If Felt was the CIA's "man inside" the FBI, and Woodward was their pet journalist, that would explain why Felt passed on more information than L. Patrick Gray says Felt could have acquired inside the FBI. It would also explain why Woodward rolled over for the Incurious One.

Because if the Bushes own the CIA, and the CIA owns Woodward, then....