Deep Throat was the anonymous source used by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. His identity has been a secret for more than 30 years. But according to former White House counsel and Watergate conspirator John Dean Deep Throat's identity may soon be revealed. In this LA Times column, Dean writes, "Bob Woodward, a reporter on the team that covered the Watergate story, has advised his executive editor at the Washington Post that Throat is ill. And Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of the Post and one of the few people to whom Woodward confided his source's identity, has publicly acknowledged that he has written Throat's obituary."