FILE - In this May 31, 1980 file photo, protesters picket the theater where the film "Deep Throat" is being shown, near Times Square in New York. FBI files released in June, 2009 to the Associated Press show agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated "Deep Throat" _ the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy Watergate figure _ in a vain attempt to roll back what became a cultural shift toward more permissive entertainment. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
MIAMI — 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."
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