Suripto:"My intelligence instincts are no longer sharp"
He says that he left the world of intelligence 30 years ago. However, at the age of 64, Suripto was arrested and charged with an intelligence-related offence: leaking state secrets. Last Tuesday the former secretary-general of the Department of Agriculture & Forestry was interrogated by the police for 24 hours and then freed because of lack of evidence.
May 8, 2001
It is only in the last two years that the former intelligence officer's name has appeared often in the mass media. The father of seven began his career as a civil servant at the unusual age of 62. In the midst of arguments over his appointment, he moved quickly and in a short space of time he handed over a sheaf of documents relating to corruption cases in the "green" department to the Attorney General's Office (AGO). One of his successes was the se
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