2005/06/03

La Gola Profonda del Watergate: come comunicano le spie

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Woodward tells Deep Throat story:

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"The two men agreed to the famed 'flower pot signal' which involved moving a flower pot on Woodward's apartment balcony if he urgently needed a meeting.

The signal would mean meeting the same night on the bottom level of an underground garage just over the Key Bridge in Rosslyn, Washington DC - although Woodward says it was never clear to him how Mr Felt could have made the daily observation of his balcony.

'There was no fallback meeting place or time. If we both didn't show, there would be no meeting,' he says.

'Felt said if there was something important he could get to my New York Times - how, I never knew.

'Page 20 would be circled, and the hands of a clock in the lower part of the page would be drawn to indicate the time of the meeting that night, probably 0200, in the same Rosslyn parking garage."

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