Description
First edition of The FBI Pyramid by Mark Felt, the notorious “Deep Throat” of Watergate, inscribed to the Secretary of the Treasury, William E. Simon.
Octavo, 351pp. Black cloth, title printed in silver on spine. Light foxing to leafends, dampstain to lower left corner of the first 10 chapters, no impact to text. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, with $12.95 price on front flap, light shelf wear, bright illustrations.
Signed by the author on front free endpaper: “1-12-80 To the Honorable William E. Simon, with respect, admiration and much appreciation, Warm regards, Mark Felt.”
William E. Simon (1927-2000) served as the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He was a stalwart supporter of conservative ideas and thought Watergate was a “partisan affair”, with democrats better at “the politics” than the republicans. In 2005, it was revealed that author Mark Felt was indeed “Deep Throat”, the anonymous source for journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate Investigation. It had been speculated for years that he was the anonymous source, including speculation by Nixon himself. As Associate Director of the FBI in the early 1970s, he was privy to all information about the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in. Felt passed away in 2008.
