People: Aug. 9, 1999

CAMP AND TELL

Most kids go to camp to learn how to make lanyards and swim. But Chase Culeman-Beckman claims he got an education with more far-reaching implications. Now 19, Culeman-Beckman says in 1988 he went to day camp with Jacob Bernstein, son of former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, and Jacob told him that W. MARK FELT, associate director of the FBI during Watergate, was the shadowy source known as Deep Throat. Culeman-Beckman researched the theory for a high school history class and this summer copyrighted an essay supporting it. But Carl Bernstein says he never told Jacob or his...

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