The Staton Jones Report

Fred LaRue, the "bag man" for Nixon's White House "Plumbers" died today. If he was "Deep Throat", the man who gave Woodward and Bernstein the clues needed to break the story and bring Nixon down, we should hear soon from the Washington Post reporters as they have promised to reveal their source after his death.

LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat, saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the Watergate story was probably a combination of several people.

Woodward says Deep Throat was an individual and not a composite, and promised to reveal his identity only after the source is dead. A request for comment from Woodward left with the newspaper Wednesday was not immediately returned.

Among the other people who have been cited as possible Deep Throats are Earl J. Silbert, an original Watergate prosecutor; Alexander Haig, who was Nixon's chief of staff and Ronald Reagan's secretary of state; L. Patrick Gray, the acting FBI director who lived four blocks from Woodward; and deputy White House counsel Fred Fielding. All have denied it.