All intelligence organizations have basically a single way of working: talking little and watching a lot. They do not need to speak, let alone to the press. This is the stance now adopted by the head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) Lt. Gen. (ret) A.M. Hendropriyono, on orders from his boss, the president.

He deliberately chose to remain silent when the arrests of Tamsil Linrung and co in Manila were confirmed on March 13. Tamsil, th