https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKdavisD.htm Deborah Davis is a journalist who has published articles in the New York Times , Village Voice and Ramparts . In 1979 Davis published a book about Katharine Graham ( Katharine the Great ). The book also looked at the connections between Philip Graham and the Central Intelligence Agency . According to Davis the owner of the Washington Post was a key figure in Operation Mockingbird , a CIA program to influence the American media. According to Davis, Cord Meyer was Mockingbird's "principal operative". Davis also argued that Deep Throat was Richard Ober . Later, she claimed the source of this claim was a senior official in the CIA. As she pointed out in Katharine the Great : "The president also began to rely heavily upon the counsel of Richard Ober, Angleton's deputy, the man in the CIA most concerned with domestic counterintelligence, a...