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Saturday, October 21, 1972
- Woodward meets with Felt/Deep Throat and says they are running a story naming Haldeman is as the fifth person controlling the secret fund. He tries to get Felt/Deep Throat to confirm the story, but he refuses. Felt does say he'll keep the reporters out of trouble which Woodward reads as a confirmation, but Felt/Deep Throat says he is not obligated to warn them off any inaccurate stories.
"There is a way to untie the Watergate knot."
Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) | Associate Director of the FBI