Deep Throat Named in 1978 Herb Caen Column

JFK assassination researcher Jerry Shinley is reading Vincent Bugliosi's monumental Reclaiming History (so we don't have to) and posted this today at alt.assassination.jfk :

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy W. W. Norton (2007)

Page 822 (of the endnotes on CD)

1351 Bill Turner: I got to know Bill Turner, a straight-arrow guy, when I worked briefly with him in 1975 in Los Angeles on the reinvestigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Long before the identity of "Deep Throat" surfaced in 2005, Bill was very confident he knew who he was, someone he had worked under in the FBI's Seattle office in the1950s. Herb Caen reported in his inimitable column in the San Francisco Chronicle way back on February 13, 1978, "Ex-FBIer Bill Turner is certain that Watergate's 'Deep Throat' was former Asst. FBI Dir. W. Mark Felt, who wanted Hoover's job."

William Turner wrote several books, including his memoirs Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and Other Tails