Howard Kaplan, The Damascus Cover Author

Join Tony DUrso, Host of The Spotlight as he interviews The Damascus Cover author, Howard Kaplan. Howard, a native of Los Angeles, lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. When he was 21, while attending school in Jerusalem, he was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle out a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm.

His first trip was a success. However, On his second trip to the Soviet Union, he was arrested in Ukraine and interrogated for two days and again for two days in Moscow, before being released. He is the author of four novels. Also, The World Premier of the movie: The Damascus Cover, starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Sir John Hurt debuted at the Boston Film Festival, September 23. Joining Tony as Special VIP Co-Host is The Ambassador of Happiness® Maura Sweeney. Join us on The Spotlight with Tony DUrso on the Voice America Influencers Platform!

The Damascus Cover Author

Spy Novelist Howard Kaplan, a native of Los Angeles, lived in Israel and traveled extensively through Lebanon, Syria & Egypt.
At age of 21, he was sent on a mission into the Soviet Union to smuggle a dissident’s manuscript on microfilm to London. His first trip was a success. On his second trip, he transferred a manuscript to the Dutch Ambassador inside his Moscow embassy.

A week later, he was arrested in Khartiv in the Ukraine and interrogated for two days there and two days in Moscow, before being expelled from the USSR. The KGB picked him up for meeting dissidents and did not know about the manuscript transfers.
He holds a BA in Middle East History from UC Berkeley and an MA in the Philosophy of Education from UCLA. He is the author of five novels. The hit movie: The Damascus Cover, is from his novel, which scooped four awards at Manchester Film Festival.