Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident
Source: Washington Post
Roland W. Haas, a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who claimed in a 2007 memoir that he was a CIA assassin, died over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself, police in Georgia said.
According to an account in the Newnan, Ga., Times-Herald, “Passing motorists saw Haas on the side of the road” on Saturday night “and heard the pop of a gunshot.”
A police patrolman soon discovered Haas, 58, lying face down behind his car and pronounced him dead, the paper said.
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