Self-Described CIA Assassin Dies in Gun Accident
September 1st, 2010Alternate headline: Douchebag Juicer Shoots Himself in the Leg.
My guess is that my goat is more likely to be a CIA assassin than Roland W. Haas. Read the reviews of his book on Amazon, and the comments. Mr. CIA Assassin doesn’t know what TS-SCI means?
I wasn’t going to post this, but I will, if just to let people know to stop submitting it.
This one, however, does get a bonus Coincidence point when we try to calculate the odds of two suspected bogus spooks called Roland (see: Roland Carnaby) dying of gunshot wounds in a two year period.
Via: Washington Post:
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.
According to an account in the Newnan, Ga., Times-Herald, “Passing motorists saw Haas on the side of the road” on Saturday night “and heard the pop of a gunshot.”
A police patrolman soon discovered Haas, 58, lying face down behind his car and pronounced him dead, the paper said.
Haas had shot himself in the femoral artery in his right leg, the Coweta County police told the paper. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ruled his death accidental.
“Authorities believe the victim was in medical distress at the time of the shooting,” the paper reported. “He was in diabetic shock, he suffered heart disease and had ‘several other things going on,’ ” police said.
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.
