Interview with Bob Woodward March 6, 1989
Len Colodny, co-author with Robert Gettlin of the "Silent Coup: The Removal of a President"
For more info: www.c-span.org/video/?20346-1/silent-coup-removal-president
"Deep Throat" Used to Hide Haig: "Deliberate Erasures" on White House Tape
What was Concealed:
Woodward, by using "Throat", is concealing the person that actually erased the tape or at the very least witnessed it being erased.
Why This Is Significant:
Colodny tells Woodward in the interview transcript below: "the word that jumps out at you is deliberate. Because if somebody is deliberately erasing tapes that are before Judge Sirica, we're talking about a crime."
It is significant because, if for "Throat" to know it was deliberate, he either erased the tape or witnessed its destruction. It is clear that both the process of elimination and Woodward's changing story about "Throat" as a source, that Alexander Haig is the source that told him that there were deliberate erasures on the White House tapes.
https://www.watergate.com/bob-woodward/deep-throat
THE SKINNY: Bob Woodward had access to the White House and Alexander Haig as a military attache between the Pentagon and The White House. Soon after, joining The Washington Post as an investigative reporter ... ahem!! Deep Throat was likely not FBI special agent and associate director, William Mark Felt Sr. Why lie about it? So you believe the "All The President's Men" angle. Otherwise, the hero journalist story was premeditated. Let's rename it "Access & A Zionist Screenplay."
Interestingly enough, Woodward spent more time than any other journalist with former President George W. Bush, interviewing him six times for close to 11 hours total. Woodward believed the Bush administration's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction prior to the war. During an appearance on Larry King Live, he was asked by a telephone caller, "Suppose we go to war and go into Iraq and there are no weapons of mass destruction", Woodward responded "I think the chance of that happening is about zero. There's just too much there."
Now regarding the real "Deep-Throat"
ALEXANDER HAIG Born 1924 n Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, Haig served in the Korean War after graduating from the United States Military Academy. In the Korean War, he served as an aide to General Alonzo Patrick Fox and General Edward Almond. After the war, he served as an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. During the Vietnam War, HAIG commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. For his service, HAIGwas a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart.
In 1969 HAIG became an assistant to National Security Adviser HENRY KISSINGER. HAIG became vice chief of staff of the Army, the second-highest-ranking position in the Army, in 1972. After the 1973 resignation of H.R. Haldeman, HAIG became President Nixon's chief of staff. Serving in the wake of the Watergate scandal, he became especially influential in the final months of Nixon's tenure, and played a role in persuading Nixon to resign in August 1974. HAIG continued to serve as chief of staff for the first month of President Ford's tenure. From 1974 to 1979, HAIG served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, commanding all NATO forces in Europe. He retired from the Army in 1979 and pursued a career in business.
After Reagan won the 1980 presidential election, he nominated HAIG to be his secretary of state. After the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, HAIG asserted "I am in control here," allegedly suggesting (erroneously since 1947, when the Speaker of the House of Representatives was designated the second in the line of succession after the Vice President) that he served as acting president in Reagan's and Bush's absence, later iterating that he meant that he was functionally in control of the government.
FOOTNOTE: BIBI, Benjamin Netanyahu, between 1956 and 1958, and again from 1963 to 1967, his family lived in the United States in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he attended and graduated from Cheltenham High School and was active in a debate club. To this day, he speaks fluent English, with a noticeable Philadelphia accent. (Note: This location was 10 miles away from where HAIG was born and raised.) After graduating from high school in 1967, BIBI returned to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces.
