Final_Judgment

474 ”Deep Throat” [377]
What's more, there have also been reports that Haig himself instituted a
quiet, behind-the-scenes investigation of Nixon's reported involvement with
organized crime, evidently as part of the effort to further tighten the noose
around Nixon's neck in the event that the president refused to go on his own
volition. We can only imagine the public response if they learned that their
president—who said he wasn't a "crook"—would have been exposed by the
Washington Post as a secret ally of "the Mafia." As it was, Angleton, Haig
and the Post never had to play their "Mafia" card against Nixon. The
embattled president resigned on August 9, 1974.
THE REAL 'DALLAS-WATERGATE CONNECTION'
In the context of what we have thus considered, can there be any doubt
that Watergate, in fact, was a joint CIA-Mossad operation—orchestrated by
James Angleton—for the purpose of removing Nixon from the presidency,
an operation akin to the conspiracy that led to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy? The evidence is there, for those who can see the big picture.
It might be added, if only as an afterthought, that it seems that the
choice of the moniker "Deep Throat" was some sort of "inside joke" on the
part of Woodward and his colleagues at the Post. Angleton, of course, was
known as a heavy drinker and chain smoker who was often enveloped in a
haze of smoke. "Deep Throat" was also said to be quite literary and it was
well known that while at Yale, young James Angleton, in fact, was very
much the poet and edited a literary magazine.
So the use of the "Deep Throat" code name was obviously a not-sosubtle
way of signaling to those in the know in official Washington that the
real force behind the leak of information to the Post was, in fact, Israel's
CIA ally, James Angleton. And thus, anyone in the loop would realize
immediately that the "Watergating" of Richard Nixon was a dirty tricks
operation being conducted out of Angleton's Israeli desk in the White
House. Although Richard Ober appears to have been the actual "voice" for
"Deep Throat," James Angleton was the ventriloquist behind the scenes.
Richard Curtiss, executive editor of The Washington Report on Middle
East Affairs, stated frankly in 1995 that "it's long been our opinion that
whoever played the role of 'Deep Throat' was in fact only a conduit for
information collected by Israel's Mossad and used to discredit Nixon," 978
and that Nixon's attempt to reassess U.S. relations with Israel was "the
catalyst that led directly to his downfall." 979
Until the fourth edition of Final Judgment, Richard Nixon's moves to
consolidate power and to control the CIA and the subsequent intrigue of
Watergate have never been connected to Nixon's emerging conflict with
Israel. But there's no question, all things considered, that this is the real key
to understanding Watergate and the "Dallas-Watergate connection" that has
so long been pondered but never fully understood—until now.