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Deep Throat Papers Will Move to TexasFollowing the disclosure of ex-FBI official W. Mark Felt as Watergate informant Deep Throat, papers relating to his revelations that belonged to former Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein will be delivered to the University of Texas at Austin’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center this fall, according to the June 3 Austin American-Statesman.UTA bought the reporters’ archives for $5 million in April 2003, with the stipulation that documents related to anonymous sources would be withheld until the deaths of those sources or agreement concerning their release. Under that agreement, the Ransom Center made most of the collection—86 boxes of papers and 21 bound volumes—public earlier this year. Director Tom Staley said the center will make the Deep Throat papers available to the public as soon as they can be archived. “We never considered Deep Throat a factor in whether or not to purchase this archive,” Staley said in the American-Statesman. “We bought the collection for its research value. Because of the crisis in the Nixon presidency, the collection is a lens on history.” He did, however, acknowledge that Felt’s revelation makes the price seem like a bargain now. Posted June 3, 2005. |
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