What's the problem with him will be revealed very soon !!
On May 5th, 1978 (during his trial), he submitted to the court a detailed 'Eksepsi' (demurrer) and is quoted as writing:
"Two days before the October 1, 1965, events I visited with my family Suharto's home in Jalan Haji Agus Salim. At the time General Suharto was still commander of KOSTRAD. Besides speaking about family affairs, I also intended to ask him some questions regarding information I received concerning the Generals' Council ("Dewan Djendral") ..... He [Suharto] himself told me the following: the previous day he had learned from a former subordinate of his from Yogyakarta, whose name was Subagyo, that there was information about the existence of a generals' council of the Army, which had plans for a coup d'e'tat against the power of President Sukarno and his government."
Latief further reported who were present at that visit; among them was Suharto's youngest son who the same day got hot soup over his body. Then Latief continues:
"In addition, I wish to confirm a report which a writer, Brackman, has published an interview with General Suharto ..... General Suharto told him the following: 'Two days before September 30, our three-year-old son had an accident at home. He poured hot soup on himself, and we had to rush him to the hospital. Many friends visited my son there and on the night of September 30, I was there, too. ... I remembered Col. Latief dropped into the hospital that evening to inquire about my son's health. I was touched by his thoughtfullness. .... Today I realize that he didn't go to the hospital to on my son but, rather, to CHECK ON ME....'There also exists (Latief goes on) an interview of Suharto published in Der Spiegel of June 1970, in which he was asked how it could happen that he didn't appear on the list of generals who were to be killed. Suharto replied: 'About eleven o'clock in the night, Col. Latief of the putsch conspiracy came to the hospital with the intention to KILL ME, but evidently he shrank back from effectuating this plan in a public place.'
I believe (Latief continues) that the President of the Court, .... will ask: 'Why did Latief come at this extremely important moment ? Did Latief really want to kill General Suharto that night?'
Is it imaginable (Latief pursues his argument) that I should be planning to do harm to a man I highly esteemed, whom I had known for a long time and who had been, in the past, my commander ? It is, moreover, logical that if I would actually have planned to kill "Bapak" General Suharto, such an act would certainly have amounted to a BLUNDER that would cause the whole movement of October 1, 1965, to fall through.
I was firmly convinced that if anybody could be considered LOYAL to the leadership of President SUKARNO, IT WAS HE. I know him already from Yogyakarta and I truly did know who "Bapak" General Suharto was. I came to him, in full agreement with Brig.Gen.Supardjo and Lt.Col. Untung, after we had gathered that evening about 9 o'clock in my house. The aim was to be able to appeal at any time to him for support. This is why I found it important to visit him. Lt.Col.Untung had also been his subordinate in Central Java and later he had been transferred to the Raiders' Corps. He was selected to be parachuted on West Irian, which earned him high honours. Still, Untung dared not appear before Suharto, as I did...."
In his "Eksepsi", Col. Latief remarks that Sukarno was deposed as President because it was assumed that Sukarno had possessed foreknowledge that something that night and, thus, had a certain co-responsibility for the events.
"We have to observe," writes Laties, "that Gen. Suharto, TOO, 'possessed foreknowledge', and had information both about the existence of a generals' council and about the existence of a movement to thwart the plan of the generals' council for a coup d'etat. When he was informed about that or, at least had learned about it, he did NOT as quickly as possible report it to his chief the Minister concurrently Commander of the Army [Gen. Ahmad Yani] or to the President [Sukarno]."