Ga. author of disputed CIA memoir fatally shot
by USS BYNUM - Associated Press Writer
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP)-- Police in west Georgia say an Army Reserve intelligence officer who wrote a 2007 memoir claiming he'd been a CIA assassin has died after accidentally shooting himself.

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.
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