Act stupid.

It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a non cooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit.

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,

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

Use wrong addresses.

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

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

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.

Misroute materials.

Loiterers arouse suspicion.

Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.

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

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

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

Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.

Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.

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

To incite the citizen to the active practice of simple sabotage and to keep him practicing that sabotage over sustained periods is a special problem.

* Warn that inferior materials will mean in ferior work.

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.

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

Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific examples, which need not be from his own field, should accomplish this.

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,

The contents of this Manual should be carefully controlled and should not be allowed to come into unauthorized hands.

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

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

Start duplicate files.

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

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.

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Confuse similar names.

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.

Confuse similar names.

Loiterers arouse suspicion.

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

The contents of this Manual should be carefully controlled and should not be allowed to come into unauthorized hands.

See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.

Complain against ersatz materials.

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

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

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

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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