Coweta County sheriff's deputies found 58-year-old Roland Haas late Saturday lying behind his car at a roadside in Newnan. They say a handgun Haas was carrying fired accidentally and the bullet severed his femoral artery.
Haas of Peachtree City wrote a 2007 book titled "Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin." He claimed in the memoir to have assassinated international drug dealers for the CIA during the Cold War.
His wife, Marilyn Haas, said Wednesday her husband was a patriotic hero. But critics such as James F. Sullivan, a former CIA polygraph operator, claim Haas' book was a fabrication.







