The garage entrance he used is now 1820 N. Woodward also reveals for the first time the address of the famous Virginia parking garage where most of his meetings with Deep Throat were conducted: 1401 Wilson Blvd. "To his eternal credit," Woodward writes, he did just that. Pottinger told Woodward, who didn't confirm his conclusion, that he would keep his knowledge to himself. He then offered to withdraw the question as irrelevant to the subject of investigation, which was illegal break-ins conducted by the FBI in pursuit of anti- war radicals from the Weather Underground. In that grand jury proceeding, Woodward writes, Pottinger quietly reminded Felt that he was under oath. But the book adds numerous revealing details to the well-known story.
Deep Throat's identity was revealed in a Vanity Fair article a month ago, and Woodward has already written the story in the Washington Post of how Felt became his famous secret source. "The Secret Man" contains no major revelations. Asked, "Were you Deep Throat?" Felt initially said, "No," but his stunned look alerted Pottinger to the probability that he was lying. 2 man at the FBI, had given himself away while testifying before a grand jury. In "The Secret Man," to be published next week by Simon & Schuster, Woodward - now a Post assistant managing editor - writes that he learned in 1976 from then-Assistant Attorney G eneral Stanley Pottinger that Felt, who had been the No. WASHINGTON - The identity of "Deep Throat, " the Washington Post's key Watergate source, was almost revealed nearly three decades ago, according to Bob Woodward's new book on his relationship with W.
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