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My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin
Potomac Books
July 2007
On Sale: July 6, 2007
ISBN: 1597970867
EAN: 9781597970860
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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