Deep Throat Not Jewish

A former FBI agent
Washington/JTA
who outed himself as the "Deep Throat"
of the Watergate scandal is not Jewish,
though President Nixon and his aides
believed he was. Mark Felt, 91, revealed
himself to Vanity Fair this week as the
best-known anonymous source of the
last century.
Nixon, who had clashed with Felt over
the FBI's refusal to use questionable
means to track down leaks, came to sus-
pect that Felt — J. Edgar Hoover's right-
hand man — of leaking information. In
a 1972 conversation recorded on the
Nixon tapes, top aide H.R. Haldeman
tells the president that Felt is Jewish.
Nixon expresses shock that a Jew could
have reached such a senior post and
speculates that Felt might be leaking
information because he is Jewish. In fact,
Felt, born in Idaho, is of Irish ancestry
and claims no religious affiliation.

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Accused Of 'Double Life'

Prosecutors accused a
WashingtonlJTA
former professor at a U.S. university of liv-
ing a "double life" as a conduit for Islamic
Jihad. The trial of Sarni Al Arian opened
in Tampa, and prosecutors alleged that the
former University of South Florida profes-
sor raised money and organized opera-
tions for the terrorist group.
His defense attorney suggested that
the case is about Arian's right to free
speech, including making aggressively
anti-Israel statements. Arian was fired
from the school in 2003, after he was
indicted. He has been under investiga-
tion for more than a decade, and the
case was at the center of last year's
Florida Senate race.

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Rudy To The Rescue?

Rudolph Giuliani
Jerusalem/JTA
offered to help Israel fight crime.
"I am prepared to help you but it would
have to be done on a clandestine basis,
not publicly and not through a newspa-
per," the former New York City mayor
said when asked by Yediot Athronot about
recent calls by Israeli authorities to emu-
late his law-enforcement policies, which
curbed crime in New York City.
Giuliani noted that during his time as
mayor, New York had 55 police officers
for every 10,000 citizens, more than
twice the figure in Israel. Asked about
plans by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to
boost Israel's police force, Giuliani
stressed that its important for new per-
sonnel to undergo adequate training,
but speculated that mandatory military
service in Israel would help.

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