Gen. Haig told Ruddy bluntly who the likely suspect was: Mark Felt.

"It didn’t come as a surprise to me at all," Gen. Haig told NewsMax.com Tuesday evening.

"The only good news is that it was revealed by the individual himself so that it deprived the Washington Post of another profit windfall," he said with a chuckle.

Haig was President Nixon’s chief of staff during the Watergate episode; few know the inside details of how the White House dealt with the scandal and a leaker identified later as "Deep Throat."

Gen. Haig doubts, however, that Felt alone was the sole, key source that helped hasten Nixon’s resignation.

"There were countless sources, some of which were totally inaccurate, some of which weren’t, some of which were totally politically motivated and some of which were an expression of moral outrage," Haig said.

Asked what he thought might have been Marl Felt’s motivations in cooperating with Woodward and Bernstein, Haig said he didn’t know.

"Having resigned from three presidencies myself for reasons that involved my conscience," he said, "I can understand how one who has been an enforcer of law and order all of his career would be outraged if he saw something that was not correct."

Despite the criticism of some who believe that Felt betrayed President Nixon or that he should have gone public with his information, Gen. Haig stood by Felt.

"I do know he was a very highly regarded professional FBI leader, and for that he and his family can be very proud," said Haig.

He also noted that other sources provided Woodward and Bernstein with critical information.

"There were many sources, one of whom I knew to be the president’s lawyer, J. Fred Buzhardt," Gen. Haig said.

"He informed me years later that he had been the main source and that’s what provided the accurate aspects of the Woodward and Bernstein books."

Gen. Haig doesn’t agree that Watergate refers to a political scandal.

"Watergate was a political saga," he said.

"It wasn’t a saga of good and evil. Some could call it a coup d’etat. It certainly involved the efforts to reverse a landslide election."

Deep Throat was just part of the effort to get President Nixon, Haig recalled. But Deep Throat didn’t play the key role.

"What overthrew President Nixon were the tapes, which were just too tough for the American people to absorb," said Haig.

"Taping was very common to almost every White House I was in, one way or the other," he said.

"Nixon’s big mistake was that he didn’t destroy the tapes."

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