After you have committed an act of easy sabotage, resist any temptation to wait around and see what happens.
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a document written by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944. The manual was declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2008.
The manual was distributed to OSS officers in foreign countries in order to help them train "citizen-saboteurs" in German-occupied Europe.
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Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.
A reasonable amount of humor in the presentation of suggestions for simple sabotage will relax tensions of fear.
Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.
Start duplicate files.
Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.
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.
Work slowly.
Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.
Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.
Start duplicate files.
Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.
To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.
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.
Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.
Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.
Even if you speak the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.
Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.
Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.
Forget tools so that you will have to go back after them.
When you go to the lavatory, spend a longer time there than is necessary.
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Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
Once he is encouraged to think backwards about himself and the objects of his everyday life, the saboteur will see many opportunities in his immediate environment which cannot possibly be seen from a distance.
Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.
Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.
Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.
If you commit sabotage on your job, you should naturally stay at your work.
It also can be conveyed directly: statements praising the effectiveness of simple sabotage can be contrived which will be published by white radio, freedom stations, and the subversive press.
Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.
Hold up mail until the next collection.
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.
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, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
Once he is encouraged to think backwards about himself and the objects of his everyday life, the saboteur will see many opportunities in his immediate environment which cannot possibly be seen from a distance.
Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.
Estimates of the proportion of the population engaged in sabotage can be disseminated.
Multiply paper work in plausible ways.
Misfile essential documents.
The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.
Loiterers arouse suspicion.
His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies.
Loiterers arouse suspicion.
Loiterers arouse suspicion.
The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly.
Of course, there are circumstances when it would be suspicious for you to leave.
Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.
They should be used as a basis of radio broadcasts only for local and special cases and as directed by the theater commander.
However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.
Prepared under direction of The Director of Strategic Services
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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.