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.

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

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

Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

Work slowly.

Instances of successful sabotage already are being broadcast by white radio and freedom stations, and this should be continued and expanded where compatible with security.

Loiterers arouse suspicion.

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

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hold up mail until the next collection.

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

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

Apply all regulations to the last letter.

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.

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.

Snarl up administration in every possible way.

Confuse similar names.

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

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.

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

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

MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR

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

Apply all regulations to the last letter.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once.

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.

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

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

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

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

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