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

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

The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.

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

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

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

MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR

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

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

Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

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

Snarl up administration in every possible way.

Where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless; and so on.

The ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate personal motive for committing simple sabotage. Instead, he must be made to anticipate indirect personal gain, such as might come with enemy evacuation or destruction of the ruling government group.

General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion

The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking, and he should be told this in so many words.

Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam,

However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.

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

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.

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.

Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

Loiterers arouse suspicion.

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

See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.

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

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.'

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

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

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

A state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.

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.

However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.

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

Act stupid.

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

Misfile essential documents.

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

His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies.

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

The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.

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

His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies.

Use wrong addresses.

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

Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.

However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

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