'Deep Throat' garage from US Watergate scandal to be razed

One of the most historic US journalism sites will vanish after a Virginia county board voted to demolish the building and parking garage central to the Watergate political scandal of the 1970s. The Arlington County Board agreed on Saturday to raze the Rosslyn garage where FBI official Mark Felt secretly met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal. The investigation led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Felt was known as Woodward’s source “Deep Throat”—but his identity remained a secret until 2005. The board voted to let Monday Properties replace its two 12-story, 1960s-era buildings with a residential tower and a commercial building.

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