David Leppard

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David Leppard is a British journalist and former editor of The Sunday Times investigative unit, the Insight team. He is the author of books on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the Waco siege, and Special Branch, the British counter-terrorism and national-security police. He was responsible for a 1995 story suggesting Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour party, had been an agent for the KGB. This later proved to be incorrect and the paper apologised. This was however a rare glitch in an otherwise impressive record.

Leppard was nominated as Journalist of the Year in the 1990 British Press Awards.

[edit] Books

• The Bomb Squad. Jonathan Cape, 1999 ISBN 0-224-03568-1
• Fire and Blood: True Story of David Koresh and the Waco Siege. Fourth Estate, 1993, ISBN 1-85702-166-5
• On the Trail of Terror: Inside Story of the Lockerbie Investigation. Jonathan Cape, 1991, ISBN 0-224-03030-2