Mark Felt was a special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and later on also served as the Associate Director of the FBI. In 2005, he revealed to the American public that he was in fact ‘Deep Throat’, the secret government informant who passed o sensitive information to Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the journalists responsible for bringing the ‘Watergate’ scandal to light. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He is often described to be one of the earliest whistleblowers in history. Felt was forced to end his thirty-one-year career at the Bureau after being accused of leaking sensitive information regarding former director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover’s illegal surveillance methods. Felt and his colleague, Edward Miller, themselves were prosecuted for their roles in the conducting of illegal surveillance and were found guilty in 1980. They were eventually pardoned by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Felt has been the subject of multiple books and movies about the tumultuous period during the term of President Nixon.