Misfile essential documents.

Since the effect of his own acts is limited, the saboteur may become discouraged unless he feels that he is a member of a large, though unseen, group of saboteurs operating against the enemy or the government of his own country and elsewhere. This can be conveyed indirectly: suggestions which he

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

A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one's fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

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

Gains should be stated as specifically as possible for the area addressed: simple sabotage will hasten the day when Commissioner X and his deputies Y and Z will be thrown out, when particularly obnoxious decrees and restrictions will be abolished, when food will arrive, and so on.

In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.

Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.

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.

Always be profuse in your apologies. Frequently you can 'get away' with such acts under the cover of pretending stupidity, ignorance, over-caution, fear of being suspected of sabotage, or weakness and dullness due to undernourishment.

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.

When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.

Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.

When training new workers, give in complete or misleading instructions.

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

Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another.

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

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

After you have committed an act of easy sabotage, resist any temptation to wait around and see what happens.

Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.

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

Loiterers arouse suspicion.

General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion

In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.

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

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

They should be used as a basis of radio broadcasts only for local and special cases and as directed by the theater commander.

The potential saboteur should discover what types of faults are normally found in their kind of work and should then devise theirbsabotage so as to enlarge that 'margin for error.'

General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion

Gains should be stated as specifically as possible for the area addressed: simple sabotage will hasten the day when Commissioner X and his deputies Y and Z will be thrown out, when particularly obnoxious decrees and restrictions will be abolished, when food will arrive, and so on.

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

When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.

Occurring on a wide scale, simple sabotage will be a constant and tangible drag on the war effort of the enemy.

Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.

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

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

It should be pointed out to the saboteur where the circumstances are suitable, that he is acting in self-defense against the enemy, or retaliating against the enemy for other acts of destruction.

A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one's fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

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

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.

Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can: when changing the material on which you are working, as you would on a lathe or punch, take needless time to do it.

A reasonable amount of humor in the presentation of suggestions for simple sabotage will relax tensions of fear.

Always be profuse in your apologies. Frequently you can 'get away' with such acts under the cover of pretending stupidity, ignorance, over-caution, fear of being suspected of sabotage, or weakness and dullness due to undernourishment.

Misfile essential documents.

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

If you commit sabotage on your job, you should naturally stay at your work.

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

Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on.

Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another.