 Several score of military police, civil police, as well as secret police went into the subterranean café, emerging after 15–20 minutes with 3 arrested suspects who were secret "agent provocateurs" with undercover recording equipment trying to get opposition leaders (who were in the café) to say or perform illegal acts.Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) acknowledged that the agents urging the opposition leaders to resort to violence were its employees.Secret police (which outnumbered uniformed police and military 3 to 1) would not allow journalists to take pictures; however, some were able to (despite their threats of impending danger to journalists' personal safety or destruction of their cameras).