Simple Sabotage Field Manual
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Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another.
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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.
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Start duplicate files.
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Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.
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Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police.
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In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.
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The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly.
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The contents of this Manual should be carefully controlled and should not be allowed to come into unauthorized hands.
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If you are cutting, shaping or doing other measured work, measure dimensions twice as often as you need to.
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Complain against ersatz materials.
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Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.
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* Warn that inferior materials will mean in ferior work.
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Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on.
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Complain against ersatz materials.
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Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
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Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
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See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
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Even if the technique is not applicable to his surroundings, another's success will encourage him to attempt similar acts.
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Think out ways to in crease the number of movements necessary on your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one, try to make a small wrench do when a big one is necessary, use little force where consider able force is needed, and so on.
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A second type of simple sabotage requires no destruc tive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means.
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Encouraging Destructiveness
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Think out ways to in crease the number of movements necessary on your job: use a light hammer instead of a heavy one, try to make a small wrench do when a big one is necessary, use little force where consider able force is needed, and so on.
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Specific examples, which need not be from his own field, should accomplish this.
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The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly.
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Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
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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
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Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.
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Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.
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Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
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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.
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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
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However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.
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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.
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When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.
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Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.
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In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
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Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once.
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Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.
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Act stupid.
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Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.
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General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion
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Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.
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Complain against ersatz materials.
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Act stupid.
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Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.
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To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.
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Snarl up administration in every possible way.
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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.
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Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
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See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.
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