Angelo Joseph Lano (born January 12, 1939) is a former American field agent for the

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(1961–1990) in Washington DC, notable for his work heading the investigation of, and appearing as a witness for, the Watergate scandal surrounding President Richard M. Nixon. Lano was one of a number of FBI agents who was falsely accused as a source of information for Carl Bernstein and ''

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'' during the investigation, which helped shift

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suspicions away from Mark Felt,Michael Dobbs (June 20, 2005)
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''. Retrieved July 25, 2007. who was revealed as informant Deep Throat on May 31, 2005. He was portrayed by Ike Barinholtz in the 2017 film '' Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House'' and by Chris Messina in the 2022 television series '' Gaslit''.

References

Sources

* Jaworski, Leon ''The Right and the Power: The Prosecution of Watergate'', 1976

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