false 132350 1 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&#8217;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.<br /><br />A true story that pulls no punches, <i>Enter the Past Tense</i> also chronicles Haas&#8217;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&#8212;and one that readers won&#8217;t soon forget. 127482 31 8 2007 Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life As a CIA Assassin total:20|5:0|4:1|3:1|2:0|1:0| 20 64 30 7 2 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 10:14:14 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:39:56 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 10 01:19:04 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 01:21:30 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 22:23:55 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 22:26:16 -0700 2008 Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin by Roland W Haas was a disappointment, to me at least. I spied the book while checking it out to a patron at the library, and had thought it looked like a very interesting book. After all, who wouldn’t enjoy a tell-all book from a CIA assassin...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 04 11:34:34 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 23:37:40 -0700 2009 1 4 0 false false Sat Aug 23 04:06:45 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 04:11:11 -0700 2008 I kept wanting more like how was Haas identified by the CIA??.
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