David E. Kaplan (author)

{{short description|American journalist}}

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David E. Kaplan (born 1955) is an investigative reporter and former director of the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.{{Cite web |url=http://www.publicintegrity.org/news/entry/187/ |title=David E. Kaplan Named New Director of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) |access-date=2011-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043204/http://www.publicintegrity.org/news/entry/187/ |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} Before this post, he worked for the American newsweekly U.S. News & World Report.

Works

David E. Kaplan commonly writes about terrorism, organized crime, and intelligence. He is co-author of Yakuza (University of California Press, 2003).

Kaplan is also co-author of The Cult at the End of the World, on the Aum doomsday sect behind the 1995 nerve gassing of Tokyo's subway (Crown, 1996); and author of Fires of the Dragon, on the life and murder of Taiwanese-American journalist Henry Liu.

Books

  • Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia. New York: Crown Publishers (1996). {{ISBN|0517705435}}.
  • Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld, Expanded Edition, with Alec Debro. Berkeley: University of California Press (2003). {{ISBN|0520215621}}.

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