''The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside'' is a 1979 non-fiction book by W. Mark Felt. Mark Felt was the associate director of the United States

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(FBI), the effective second in command to

J. Edgar Hoover John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American attorney and law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau o ...

and subsequently L. Patrick Gray III. The book chronicles the FBI bureaucracy during the 1960s and 1970s. The book gained interest in 2005, with the revelation that Felt was " Deep Throat", the

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whistleblower Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe, unethical or ...

who assisted ''

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'' reporter

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in his and

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's investigation. By 2005, Felt was in declining health and unable or unwilling to explain why he assisted in the ''Washington Posts journalists with their stories, which ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. President

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until Resignation of Richard Nixon, his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican ...

. Many looked to the book to explain Felt's motivation. In the book, Felt denies the notion that he was Deep Throat."Ralph de Toledano, "Deep Throat's Ghost." '' The American Conservative.'' July 4, 2005. The book was co-written with Hoover biographer Ralph de Toledano, though the latter's name appears only in the copyright notice. In 2005, Toledano wrote that the volume was "largely written by me since his original manuscript read like '' The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table''."Henry Steck, "Review of The FBI Pyramid", Library Journal. Toledano also said: "Felt swore to me that he was not Deep Throat, that he had never leaked information to the Woodward-Bernstein team or anyone else. The book was published and bombed."

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