was hunter s. thompson deep throat?

There's an interesting theory going round the Net (found via technoccult) that the late Hunter S. Thompson may have been the infamous and unknown Deep Throat known for leaking the info that lead to the watergate scandel that dethroned Nixon. As a kid I remember learning about watergate and though the case was never solved as to who Deep Throat was, history was told as if we never would know. What happened had happened. But now what if it turns out the informant was the zany drug-addled reporter and pop-culture icon? What an ironic twist of fate, and as the article states, poetic justice of the most extreme sense.

If this does not prove to be true, that almost doesn't matter, because it makes a good story. Most history has been written and rewritten from the winner's perspective so that nothing we know about the past may actually be what happened. And if recent theories on the nature of time prove correct, any number of things could have happened, and the only thing that makes one past more real then another is our memories of them. And memories are pliable and for the most part fabricated from our present expectations. So whatever we now believe to have been true, in effect is true. Even if Thompson wasn't Deep Throat, if enough people believe that then it will be recorded as what happened, and the great writer's legacy will only be made that much greater.