Among the potential citizen-saboteurs who are to engage in physical destruction, two extreme types may be distinguished. On the one hand, there is the man who is not technically trained and employed. This man needs specific suggestions as to what he can and should destroy as well as details

It also can be conveyed directly: statements praising the effectiveness of simple sabotage can be contrived which will be published by white radio, freedom stations, and the subversive press.

Slashing tires, draining fuel tanks, starting fires, starting arguments, acting stupidly, short-circuiting electric systems, abrading machine parts will waste materials, man power, and time.

General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion

More important would be to create a situation in which the citizen-saboteur acquires a sense of responsibility and begins to educate others in simple sabotage.

Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment.

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.

Among the potential citizen-saboteurs who are to engage in physical destruction, two extreme types may be distinguished. On the one hand, there is the man who is not technically trained and employed. This man needs specific suggestions as to what he can and should destroy as well as details

This Simple Sabotage Field Manual — Strategic Services (Provisional) — is published for the information and guidance of all concerned and will be used as the basic doctrine for Strategic Services training for this subject.

Of course, there are circumstances when it would be suspicious for you to leave.

Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.

Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.

Start duplicate files.

Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.

He frequently needs pressure, stimulation or assurance, and information and suggestions regarding feasible methods of simple sabotage.

Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.

Simple sabotage may also have secondary results of more or less value.

Finally, the very practice of simple sabotage by natives in enemy or occupied territory may make these individuals identify themselves actively with the United Nations war effort, and encourage them to assist openly in periods of Allied invasion and occupation.

Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.

Act stupid.

Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.

The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly.

Misfile essential documents.

Start duplicate files.

Further, success may embolden the citizen-saboteur eventually to find colleagues who can assist him in sabotage of greater dimensions.

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Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.

This Simple Sabotage Field Manual — Strategic Services (Provisional) — is published for the information and guidance of all concerned and will be used as the basic doctrine for Strategic Services training for this subject.

Misroute materials.

Use wrong addresses.

Various media may be used to disseminate suggestions and information regarding simple sabotaage.

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

Further, success may embolden the citizen-saboteur eventually to find colleagues who can assist him in sabotage of greater dimensions.

Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.

Forget tools so that you will have to go back after them.

Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.

Act stupid.

Even if you speak the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.

Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment.

Start duplicate files.

Apply all regulations to the last letter.

Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.

Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially- trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform. This paper is primarily concerned with the latter type.

Start duplicate files.

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.