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Rails said..
Nah mate, they've got guns
they have now - but their toys were taken off them for something like 19 years for being silly little duckheads.
[this happened in '84]
and........my apologies, it wasn't Perth, it was the Sheraton in Melbourne, and the unknowing "defector" being rescued was the Dean of a University who was in town for a conference.
do a google on "botched ASIS hotel raid", it is a pretty entertaining read.