Woodward contacts Mark Felt, now the number two man at the FBI. Felt has been a mentor of Woodward for a few years since their chance meeting during Woodward’s military days. Woodward asks him about Watergate. Felt tells him it’s going to heat up, and that Hunt is definitely involved in the break in. (This could be viewed as the first official Watergate conversation between Woodward and the source known as Deep Throat, although it will be a few months before that alias is coined by Post editor Howard Simons. The name was a combination of Felt only being used on deep background (never quoted directly in the newspaper) and the name of the popular adult film of the time.)