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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.
- Sales Rank: #1303415 in eBooks
- Published on: 2007-07-31
- Released on: 2007-07-31
- Format: Kindle eBook
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When he was in college in 1971, Haas was recruited by the CIA. After extensive field training, he embarked on a life of deception, double-dealing, and (he admits this freely) murder. But, oddly enough, that's not the focus of his autobiography. Instead, Haas emphasizes the toll his profession took on his personal life. The challenges of maintaining a cover identity—his included being an English teacher and part owner of a health club—are, we learn, extremely taxing. Living the kind of life that requires lying constantly about who you are and what you believe can cause enormous pressure to build, and it's no surprise that Haas' life story includes alcoholism, drug addiction, and depression. Spy-genre fans will eat up the details regarding the author's top-secret missions into foreign countries, but it's the book's discussion of the difficulties of balancing public and private lives that gives it weight. An important addition to the espionage literature. Pitt, David
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“The story of our government’s role in using highly trained professionals to do certain unsavory but very necessary types of undercover/clandestine missions is not often pretty but has been in need of telling for some time. I can’t think of a more knowledgeable and experienced person to tell that very important story than Roland Haas.”—From the Foreword by Col. Ben S. Malcom, USA (Ret.) (Col. Ben S. Malcom)
“An incredible story of derring-do well told, including international intrigue, assassination, and deception, with a dash of Hells Angels and personal redemption mixed in. Not only does Haas reaffirm the old adage that ‘truth is stranger than fiction,’ but his is an account likely to cause considerable heartburn at the CIA, for which he worked as a contract employee for nearly three decades.”—Don Bohning, author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959–1965 (Don Bohning 2007-05-29)
"Haas's tale is definitely entertaining. . . .[his] insights into the cultures he encounters are often engrossing, and he goes into fascinating detail about aspects of his 'profession.' "—Sam Jemielity, Playboy.com (Sam Jemielity Playboy.com 2007-07-05)
“Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carré . . . fascinating.”—Book News, Inc. (Book News, Inc. 2008-11-21)
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"Haas's tale is definitely entertaining. . . .[his] insights into the cultures he encounters are often engrossing, and he goes into fascinating detail about aspects of his 'profession.'" -- Sam Jemielity, Playboy.com
"An incredible story of derring-do well told, including international intrigue, assassination, and deception, with a dash of Hells Angels and personal redemption mixed in. Not only does Haas reaffirm the old adage that `truth is stranger than fiction,' but his is an account likely to cause considerable heartburn at the CIA, for which he worked as a contract employee for nearly three decades." --Don Bohning, author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-1965
"The story of our government's role in using highly trained professionals to do certain unsavory but very necessary types of undercover/clandestine missions is not often pretty but has been in need of telling for some time. I can't think of a more knowledgeable and experienced person to tell that very important story than Roland Haas." -- From the Foreword by Col. Ben S. Malcom, USA (Ret.)
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
A complete fabrication from start to finish...
By D. Godfrey
I bought the book about 18 months ago and never got around to reviewing it. Let's just say that just about all of the inconsistencies have been pointed out ad infinitum (no, the CIA doesn't recruit drug-addled 19-year-old college dropouts with nothing to offer the world). I'm sorry I never got around to reviewing it while Haas was still alive. I'm also embarrassed for the US Army Reserve Command who employed Haas and did nothing about his lies, even going so far as defending his rights of "free speech" and not taking a position on his book or even giving him the slightest reprimand (Haas claimed that he went TDY under false pretenses, among other things). However, I will post an article from Russ Bynum of the Associated Press. Notice carefully what Paula Weiss, CIA spokesperson, has to say about Haas. For all of the conspiracy theorists who claim that the CIA will never confirm or deny employment, I think this part in the article pretty much sums it up: "The CIA denied Haas had ever worked for the agency. 'This individual was not a CIA employee ever,' said CIA spokeswoman Paula Weiss." There you go. For all of you Kool-Aid drinkers who will still play the game that Haas played and say, "Well of course they would say that," I can only say that there is no hope for you and that you need to do a serious self-examination of your own critical thinking abilities. To paraphrase Sam Harris, somebody could tell these true believers in Haas that their significant other is cheating on them and they will require hard evidence. However, this guy comes along and writes a bunch of unproven and wild claims and you buy it hook, line, and sinker. Here's the article...
Author of disputed CIA book kills self on accident
By RUSS BYNUM (AP) - 26 August 2010
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- To his wife and friends, Roland Haas was a patriotic hero who secretly risked his life for the U.S. government during the Cold War, yet critics denounced him as a "James Bond wannabe" who fabricated a memoir claiming he had been a CIA assassin.
Regardless of which version is true, police and Haas' family insist the gunshot that killed the 58-year-old author in west Georgia last weekend was an accident, a fatal fluke without intrigue or any connection to his disputed past.
Haas was found dead Saturday night behind his car at a roadside in Newnan, a quarter-mile from his home. Investigators say he accidentally shot himself in the leg and bled to death after the bullet pierced his femoral artery. They found Haas' own gun on the ground by his head.
Three years earlier, Haas published "Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin." In the book, he claimed to have worked as a Cold War secret operative in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He wrote that he had assassinated international drug dealers, helped Soviet officers escape East Germany and had been tortured in an Iranian prison.
The book was denounced as a hoax by several former CIA officers who said Haas' spy story was too outlandish to be true. The author's wife stands by his memoir and said her husband wasn't a man who told elaborate lies.
"There are a lot of things that happen all over the world that nobody knows about, and it's supposed to be that way," said Marilyn Haas, his wife of 30 years. "To me, he was a hero. He was a patriot."
Before his death, Haas spent more than 15 years as a civilian intelligence officer for the Army Reserve at Fort McPherson outside Atlanta. When his book was published, former CIA polygrapher John F. Sullivan was so outraged he wrote a letter to Haas' commanders, asking why they would employ a man trying to pass off fiction as fact.
Sullivan, who has written two books of his own, said Wednesday he was sorry to hear Haas had died. But Sullivan insisted Haas' memoir contradicts everything he knew about the CIA after 31 years with the agency.
"I'm convinced his entire book was a total fabrication," said Sullivan, 71, of Reston, Va. "He was a James Bond wannabe. And he profited from it."
The CIA denied Haas had ever worked for the agency. "This individual was not a CIA employee ever," said CIA spokeswoman Paula Weiss.
Lt. Col. Bernd Zoller, a spokesman for the Army Reserve, confirmed Haas was employed as a civilian intelligence officer, but said the job mostly dealt with maintaining computer networks and security.
"For the Army Reserve, there's not a whole lot of intelligence gathering," Zoller said.
Coweta County sheriff's deputies found Haas when two passing motorists heard a gunshot and called 911. One witness who pulled over told investigators Haas was bleeding but said he was OK. He died before an ambulance arrived.
Coweta County sheriff's Maj. James Yarbrough said Wednesday police are confident nobody else fired the shot. He said investigators suspect Haas may have stopped his car because he was having medical problems.
Haas' wife said he had open-heart surgery in November and afterward suffered a mini stroke. More recently, she said, Haas had surgery to remove a kidney that left him with nerve damage to his hands.
"Honestly it was a fluke accident," Marilyn Haas said. "Nobody else was involved."
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Worthwhile Read
By Arn Poe
I received and read the book this afternoon. My opinion (without looking anything up on the author) was that much of the story was quite believable, but the dialogue sounded like something out of some hokey spy novel. I figured that was a sign that the author was probably 'legit', but just not too good at writing/remembering dialogue.
Part of what is convincing about the book is his attention to detail - but detail that is often not really important to the reader in understanding the scenes described. That "unrelated" detail does serve, however, to ground the author in reality while he was experiencing some fantastic (and frankly, some less-than fantastic) events. There's also, sometimes, a striking lack of detail in scenes that might otherwise have served to make the book stronger.
That said, after completing the book, i went online and looked up Mr. Haas and reviews of his book. Most reviews were simply opinion ("he's delusional!", "he's an American hero!"), but the most interesting things to be found online were letters to the editor between Haas himself and another ex-CIA author, found on a local (Georgia) newspaper from around the time the book was released.
I don't want to spoil the book - it really is worth the read whether or not you believe his story - but there are some very good arguments both for and against the truthfulness of this story. Haas cites his current military position (and associated security clearance - which requires an extensive background check) as "proof" that the government isn't denying his book, while his detractors point to the same point as possible evidence that he has admitted to someone it is false ...
Is Haas a liar, spreading dangerous myths about the CIA, or is he just a guy who has finally found a platform to get an eventful (and controversial?) past off his chest? This is one of those books that i think you really have to read and draw your own conclusion from.
12 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Not outside the realm of possibility...
By Lew Knick
It always amazes me that when someone doesn't like the premise of a book, they first deny the events ever occurred and then insult the writer as a liar. About half the reviews of this book fall into this category.
I personally cannot judge whether the episodes are factual or imaginary but as a one-time member of SOG and Air Commandos, they seem reasonable or at least, fit within my experience set.
What is obvious is that someone somewhere owes Haas a big one.
Consider his descent into illness and near madness. He became so debilitated he was finally unable to do his job or even leave his house yet he was supported during the lengthy period at home. Then during his extended hospital stays, his final rehab portion was approved for many weeks longer than is usual under regular group insurance coverage. Then, he resumed work in a very responsible position as if nothing had happened. If one doesn't see that as evidence "somebody" had his back, nothing will. Somebody feels a debt is owed for the years of risky assignments with no official status or ongoing compensation.
As a piece of writing, the text is amateurish...cluttered with misspellings, poor paragraphing and punctuation and convoluted sentence structure. More than once I had to re-read a sentence to get his point; a clear sign of limited writing ability.
BUT - the fact that he didn't have a proofreader or editor does not, in my opinion, lessen the content of the book.
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