Man them good old boys at the FBI really analyzed the movie 'Deep Throat' with a fine tooth comb

[NNN0LHI]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FBI_DEEP_THROAT?SITE=ILKAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Jun 20, 3:00 PM EDT


FBI files show wide 'Deep Throat' investigation

By MATT SEDENSKY
Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) -- When the FBI investigated the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," the case touched the highest levels of the FBI, even its second-in-command W. Mark Felt, the shadowy Watergate informant whose "Deep Throat" alias was taken from the movie's title.

The FBI documents newly released to The Associated Press reveal the bureau's sprawling and ultimately vain attempt to stop the spread of a movie some saw as the victory of a cultural and sexual revolution and others saw as simply decadent.

Agents seized copies of the movie, had negatives analyzed in labs and interviewed everyone from actors and producers to messengers who delivered reels to theaters.

"Today we can't imagine authorities at any level of government - local, state or federal - being involved in obscenity prosecutions of this kind," said Mark Weiner, a constitutional law professor and legal historian at Rutgers-Newark School of Law. "The story of 'Deep Throat' is the story of the last gasp of the forces lined up against the cultural and sexual revolution and it is the advent of the entry of pornography into the mainstream."

[SmileyRose]

1. Oh yeah, I'm sure they "investigated" it alright.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Bet they all looked like painters when they got done "investigating"

:rofl:

[liberalmuse]

3. I want to forget I read this.

The FBI is utterly defunct. Or brilliant.

[TahitiNut]

4. It's essential for removing fleas and lice.

:dunce:

[Cleita]

5. I wonder if they noticed the bruises on actress Linda Lovelace that even

the make-up people couldn't cover up that had been delivered by her pimp-husband. Probably not. She was after all just a woman and probably deserved the beating she got. :sarcasm: Anyway there were never any warrants for his arrest for assault and battery.

[zazen]

7. crosspost to other discussion--even today people still don't know it was a FILM OF HER RAPE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3931473&mesg_id=3931514

[blogslut]

6. The documentary "Inside Deep Throat"

Is definitely worth watching:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418753/

[bluestateguy]

8. Probably no shortage of agents wanting that assignment

They surely got a free copy of the movie for their stash at home (provided the little woman didn't find it).

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Moral of the story: Make a dirty move and the Feds will come....

......just like half the droolers in the front row.