By Lee Pfeiffer
The administration of President Richard M. Nixon was consistently satirized during the 1970s for putting forth an image of square white guys who were constantly paranoid that somewhere, somehow, somebody might be having a good time. Newly revealed documents show that this was a stereotype based on reality. Despite racial unrest, anti-war riots and a teetering economy, the Nixon administration pushed the FBI to spend a staggering amount of time, manpower and money trying to investigate the origins of the legendary porn film Deep Throat. Virtually every aspect of the sensational 1972 movie was looked into, and the FBI even intimidated hapless couriers who delivered the canisters of film to theaters. Ironically, the one aspect they might have been justified in investigating apparently was ignored: the involvement of the mafia in taking control of the film and the hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Ironically, one of the FBI higher-ups involved in the investigation was Mark Felt, the man who was later revealed to be the source of information that brought down the Nixon administration. Why the irony? The code name assigned to him was Deep Throat. For the story click here