( CNN ) -- W. Mark Felt , who leaked information to reporters under the moniker , `` Deep Throat , '' about the Watergate break-in , died Thursday at the age of 95 , sources told CNN . W. Mark Felt , known as `` Deep Throat , '' divulged information to reporters about the Watergate break-in . Rob Jones , Felt 's grandson , said his grandfather died at his home in Santa Rosa , California . According to published reports , Felt died of congestive heart failure . Felt admitted in a 2005 Vanity Fair article he was the Washington Post 's source for many of its 400 stories on the Watergate affair during the early 1970s . The Watergate break-in eventually led to the 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon . `` I 'm proud of everything that Deep Throat did , '' Felt , 92 , told CNN 's `` Larry King Live '' in 2006 , his first public interview on the subject . Felt 's entanglement with history occurred in 1972 after the bungled break-in at the Democratic National Party offices in the Watergate hotel . Felt , an associate director at the FBI , said he was unhappy with the way the administration meddled with the investigation into the break-in , which led him to divulge information to the newspaper . Watch how Felt played a pivotal role in presidential history » . Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward , then-rookie reporters with the Washington Post , did stories about the break-in and subsequent cover-up . Both men credited Felt for helping them , but Bernstein said Felt was a tough interview . `` He did n't leak . He had to really be squeezed , '' Bernstein said in a 2006 interview . `` He confirmed mostly what we had gotten elsewhere . He did n't want to volunteer a lot of information , yet his role was essential in giving us a solidity and a knowledge that what we were reporting was right . '' Watch Bernstein praise Felt 's courage » . When King asked Felt whether he felt he had done anything wrong in going outside approved channels to get information out , Felt was unequivocal . `` I thought I was doing the right thing , '' he said . Watch Felt 's interview with Larry King » . Felt , who retired from the FBI in 1973 , had his own legal problems . He was convicted in 1980 on conspiracy charges for authorizing government agents to break into homes without search warrants in a hunt for bombing suspects in 1972 and 1973 . When the case went to trial , former President Nixon testified on Felt 's behalf . Felt was eventually pardoned in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan . When asked how he would like to be remembered , Felt said , `` I 'd like to be remembered as a government employee who did his best to help everybody . '' -- CNN 's Alan Duke contributed to this report .
W. Mark Felt , known as `` Deep Throat , '' has died , sources tell CNN . Felt leaked information to Washington Post reporters about 1972 Watergate break-in . Watergate scandal eventually led to President Richard Nixon 's resignation . Felt : `` I thought I was doing the right thing ''