Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be Deep Throat , has died of natural causes .
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Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be <m> Deep Throat </m> , has died of natural causes .
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Watergate figure Fred LaRue dies
Published July 28 , 2004
Fred LaRue , a Watergate figure and high - ranking Nixon administration official who once was rumored to be <m> Deep Throat </m> , has died of natural causes .
He was 75 .
His body was discovered Tuesday by a maid who entered his hotel room in Biloxi , Coroner Gary Hargrove said .
The coroner said he believes Mr . LaRue died Saturday ( July 24 , 2004 ) .
Mr . LaRue was known as the "bagman" who delivered payoffs to keep participants in the Watergate breakin quiet , and served 41 / 2 months in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice .
Mr . LaRue served as special assistant to John Mitchell , the former attorney general who later headed President Richard Nixon's re - election committee .
Mr . LaRue was at a 1972 meeting with Mitchell and Nixon aide Jeb Stuart Magruder in Key Biscayne , where the plan to break into the Watergate complex allegedly was hatched .
After his political career ended in scandal , Mr . LaRue returned to his home state of Mississippi to work in his family's business .
Mr . LaRue discounted rumors that he was Deep Throat , saying the mysterious source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein was not one person , but probably a combination of people .