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| Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
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Author: Roland W. Haas
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Release Date: 2008-08-30
ISBN-10: 1597971871
ISBN-13: 9781597971874
List Price: $17.95
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While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction. In the course of his first mission (to East and West Germany, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Romania, and Austria), he assassinated several international drug dealers. On his return, he was thrown into an Iranian prison, where he was physically and psychologically tortured. Over the next thirty years, he served the agency on an as-needed basis, engaging in such activities as hunting down and eliminating members of the Red Army Faction and extracting Soviet Spetsnaz officers from East Germany. His cover jobs included being a part owner of an Oakland health club, which brought him into close contact with steroid abuse in professional athletics, drug abuse in general, and the Hell’s Angels, whom he believes tried to have him killed. He also served in Germany as site commander for the Conventional Forces in Europe weapons treaty. His most recent cover was as the deputy director of intelligence in the U.S. Army Reserve Command, which involved him with the Guantanamo detention facility.
A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas’s descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of this extraordinary life. It is an eye-opening look at the dark, but many would argue necessary, side of intelligence work—and one that readers won’t soon forget.
Too many movies; too little accomplishment; too much booze.
| Customer Rating: | The ugly truth is the CIA isn't now and never was the formidable operation that Hollywood wishes it was. The CIA hasn't had assassins on its payroll, even as contract operatives, since Vietnam. The Haas story is pretty good fiction though. He has walked his wannabe persona through the settings he would have the reader believe he frequented as an assasin. But any close analysis will quickly reveal the many, many, inconsistencies that are inevitable when one makes up a tale and calls it true. The intriguing thing is, why have there been no consequences for this book at Haas's real job? The lack of blowback does not necessarily mean his employers know his story is true. In fact, if it were, it would never have reached publication, and it is likely Mr. Haas would not be with us. So why no consequences? I'm guessing it can't hurt to have our enemies wonder if we do have secret assasins. For a company that's been largely incompetent in its operations these last forty years, a bogeyman assasin is better than nothing. Saddam had his fictional WMDs to frighten the Iranians. We have our Haas-men to do the same...
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| Customer Rating: | Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
THIS IS A MUST READ, AND PASS IT ON TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS OR GIVE AS A
CHRISTMAS GIFT, THE TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION, BELIEVE ME I HAVE BEEN
THERE AND YOU WILL ENJOY THIS BOOK. |
Enter the past tense review
| Customer Rating: | | This book was hard to put down. Amazing story of one man's career. We need people like him, as this world is not a place where "nice talk" solves all problems. Recommended reading. |
Enter The Past Tense, My Secret Life As A CIA Assassin
| Customer Rating: | | Oh my gosh! What a great deal! No dust cover, but still a great deal! Excellent seller! Quick delivery. Hurry for the seller! Thank you. A++++++++ |
Makes me happy
| Customer Rating: | It makes me happy to know there are people like Mr Haas who makes life
easier for us in the good old USA. Hopefully the rest of his life will be much easier. Sticks and stones, you guys |
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