7. DEEP THROAT

My impression of Deep Throat is that he was a highly placed member of Majestic, perhaps even on the project's steering committee or board of directors. I get that impression because he had access to a wide variety of information on Department of Defense projects both inside and outside MAJESTIC. Furthermore, he was able to alter Purity Control's records to allow Dana Scully access to their cryo-containment facility at the Ft. Marlene High Containment Facility. That kind of access indicates he was very highly placed. Perhaps even at the very top of MJ-12.

His Majestic related info has included tips on the UFO-technology aircraft in DEEP THROAT, the UFO recovery operations in FALLEN ANGEL and E.B.E., and the Alien-DNA experiments of "Purity Control" in THE ERLENMEYER FLASK. His non-Majestic info has included the DoD's quest for Artificial Intelligence in GHOST IN THE MACHINE, the Litchfield cloning-eugenics experiments in EVE, and the attempt by the U.S. Government to barter for Dr. Ridley's "fountain of youth in YOUNG AT HEART. I believe these project's are non-Majestic because they don't involve alien technology of DNA.

What is more telling about Deep Throat is the "Where" and "When" of Deep Throat's tips. Deep Throat approached Mulder on several occassions with unsolicited information. That indicates that it was important to Deep Throat that Mulder receive and act on that information. Deep Throat tipped Mulder and guided him toward the Litchfield eugenics experiments and the Alien-Human hybridization project of "Purity Control." Deep Throat tried to guide Mulder away from the UFO-Technology aircraft project in DEEP THROAT and the UFO recovery operation in E.B.E. He tipped Mulder to the UFO recovery operation in FALLEN ANGEL, but could have been setting Mulder up to fail. However, the general pattern is that Deep Throat steered Mulder towards the "Biological Science" (like Litchfield and Purity Control) projects and away from the "UFO Technology" projects.

This patter indicates to me that Deep Throat was very interested in shutting down or exposing the projects involving human experimentation, but wanted to protect the projects that involved recovering and reverse-engineering UFO technology. Deep Throat may even have approved of the Government's shoot-to-kill policy on aliens. Certainly he didn't try and help save the life of the alien that was being transported across country in E.B.E., in fact he did everything in his power to keep Mulder from saving the alien.

There is one extra clue about Deep Throat's relation to Purity Control. In THE BLESSING WAY and PAPERCLIP, Deep Throat appears in a photograph taken outside the secret medical-records repository in West Virginia with Bill Mulder (Mulder's father), the Cigarette Smoking Man, nazi war criminal Victor Klemper, and The Well Manicured Man (another member of the council of Elders which runs the Majestic Project). This indicates that all four were close colleagues and that all four were intimately involved with the collection of the medical and DNA data.

What can we conclude from this? Maybe only that Deep Throat wanted Purity Control shut down enough to put his life on the line. Perhaps he was morally offended by the use of human test subjects, but didn't feel he had enough influence on the Majestic Project board of directors to shut the project down. Perhaps speaking out openly against the project would have called his loyalty to Majestic into question and endangered his life. So he goes to Mulder, figuring that if Mulder's on the trail of Purity Control either Mulder will expose the project or the Cigarette Smoking Man's goons from GARNET (the Crew-Cut Man, for example) would swing into action and shut the project down before its exposed.

There's just no way to tell if Deep Throat's views represented the views of a faction within Majestic, or if he was acting alone. But with the appearance of Mr. X and his referrence to Deep Throat as "my predacessor" I would suspect that Deep Throat had already contacted others within the Majestic Consortium who shared his views.

The episode THE MUSINGS OF A CIGARRETTE SMOKING MAN provides an additional peek into the inner workings of Deep Throat's mind. In that episode we seen The Cigarrette Smoking Man and Deep Throat as collegues of long standing, maybe even friends. Its the twilight of the Cold War and these two veteran shadow warriors are examining the materials recovered from a crashed UFO, including the occupant. Having lost a coin-toss with CSM, Deep Throat reluctantly carries out U.N. Resolution 1013 and executes the injured alien. In the epsiode E.B.E., Deep Throat relayed this incident to Mulder, but in typical Deep Throat fashion, he changed the details. In CSM's version of the event, the UFO went down in 1991. The cause of the crash wasn't specified, but while discussing the properties of the crashed UFO, Deep Throat mentions that the 1991 UFO is nearly identical to the one over Viet Nam in 1969 that the Marines couldn't shoot down. When Deep Throat used the incident of his having to execute the E.B.E. as his justification for leaking Majestic related materials he sandwiched his truth between lies. In the version Deep Throat related to Mulder, Deep Throat carried out the execution of an E.B.E. per the U.N. resolution, but the year was 1969 and the Marine fighters did shoot down the UFO over Viet Nam.

Were Deep Throat's lies to Mulder deliberate? Or perhaps after a career of lies, deception and disinformation, lying was simply more natural to Deep Throat than simply telling the truth? We may never know. All we can be sure of is that once again Deep Throat concealed a lie between two truths.

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