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Watergate's Deep Throat dies

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The former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal has died.

Mark Felt tipped off Washington Post reporters about the Watergate scandal that brought down president Richard Nixon.

He died on Thursday of congestive heart failure in Santa Rosa after several months of failing health according to his friend John D O'Connor, who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt's secret.

Mike Wooldridge reports.

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