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Vanity Fair revealed Mark Felt to be the infamous "Deep Throat" who leaked the Watergate information to the press.

Vanity Fair revealed that Mark Felt was the infamous "Deep Throat" who leaked the Watergate information to the press.

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Vanity Fair revealed Mark Felt to be the infamous "Deep Throat" who leaked the Watergate information to the press.

Vanity Fair revealed that Mark Felt was the infamous "Deep Throat" who leaked the Watergate information to the press.

The verb "reveal" can take a noun as an object (as in "he revealed the plot to me"), but if the "thing" revealed is an action, the verb "reveal" always idiomatically takes a "that"-clause, never an infinitive.
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