Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident

[maddezmom]

Roland W. Haas, a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who claimed in a 2007 memoir that he was a CIA assassin, died over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself, police in Georgia said.

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In "Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin," Haas said he had been recruited by the CIA in 1971, when he was a teenager, to conduct behind-the-lines Cold War assassinations. The account agitated a handful of former CIA officers into protesting his employment as head of intelligence for the U.S. Army Reserve at Ft. McPherson, Ga.

Haas was a fraud, John F. Sullivan, a retired CIA polygrapher, wrote to commanders.

“As one of an increasing number of former intelligence officers who believes that Roland Haas’ book… is a hoax, I find your willingness to tolerate Mr. Haas in his scam very disturbing,” Sullivan wrote.

“I am certain that you are as aware as I am that Mr. Haas’ book is 99 percent fiction, but I know also that for you to acknowledge this would leave your component’s hiring and personnel policies open to criticism. As embarrassing as that might be, it is the right thing to do. At some point, Haas will be exposed, and when that happens, your role in this hoax, however minor, could be addressed.”

more:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/08/self-described_cia_assassin_di.html

[MrScorpio]

1. Ooops! nt

[no_hypocrisy]

2. "Accident" and "CIA" seem mutually exclusive.

[baldguy]

3. At least he didn't accidentally hog-tie himself

& accidentally hang himself upside-down from the ceiling before he accidentally shot himself.

Accidentally.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. ...wearing silk stockings and with an orange in his mouth.

[Kolesar]

4. Stein does not say if he thinks Haas was really an agent

Stein does not say if Haas actually took a polygraph test.
Blogs don't use editors.

[Recursion]

5. 1st rule of being an assassin is: don't be a "self-described" assassin

seems pretty obvious to me.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. There was a hilarious line - I mean DEADLY serious in its import - in

a long article by Webster Tarpley about false-flag operations. He said:

"Their main occupational hazard is not that of arrest by the police, but their risk of being
liquidated by their own employers as a basic security measure."

[era veteran]

6. I hate it when I do that

.. .. 'Darwin Illustrated' would be a great magazine name.

[formercia]

7. Someone accidentally spoke the code word for self-destruct.

Shit happens.:rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

10. Holy Fuck! I went to 8th grade with that guy.

The name sounded familiar. So googled him. Same age. And the picture on his book cover looked like the same kid. Checked the bio, and sure enough, grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. We sat at the same lunch table together.

I don't remember him being voted most likely to shoot himself, though.