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@davej@dice.camp
2025-12-08 07:43:20

Not to be that guy, but it was #ASIS—#Australia’s *external* intelligence agency. #history

ideogram (@ideogram@social.coop)
Do you know about the Sheraton fiasco when ASIO (the Australian domestic spy agency) conducted a mock hostage release in Melbourne and smashed in a hotel room door with a sledgehammer and forced the hotel manager and other staff out through the kitchens at the end of submachine guns and pistols before getting arrested by Victoria police? Front page of The Age, March 1, 1983. #AusPol https://www.aftersalazar.com.au/musings/the-hotel-fiasco-and-the-spooks