![]() ![]() Padden and his partner, Monte Hall, were called into their supervisor’s office, where Felt was waiting to present them with a merit award for their efforts.Ī photograph of Padden, Felt and Hall still sits among the family photos in Padden’s living room in Marinwood, where he has lived the past 45 years. ![]() Unbeknownst to the agents, a certain high-ranking FBI official – Mark Felt, later to become the infamous Watergate tipster “Deep Throat” – was in San Francisco that day and learned of the Tenderloin arrest. ![]() The FBI agents happened to be driving in the Tenderloin and spotted the fleeing suspect, so they stopped the car, collared the parolee in a corner and turned him over the city police. ![]() An ex-con had just struck his parole officer in the head with an ax and was running through the city’s Tenderloin’s District with the officer’s gun. IN THE 1960s, an FBI agent named Thomas Padden and his partner were driving through San Francisco when a bulletin came over the police radio. ![]()
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