Simple Sabotage Field Manual

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The 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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Simple sabotage may also have secondary results of more or less value.
Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially- trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform. This paper is primarily concerned with the latter type.
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.
However, this man needs to be stimulated to re-orient his thinking in the direction of destruction.
Simple sabotage may also have secondary results of more or less value.
Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.
Complain against ersatz materials.
Since the effect of his own acts is limited, the saboteur may become discouraged unless he feels that he is a member of a large, though unseen, group of saboteurs operating against the enemy or the government of his own country and elsewhere. This can be conveyed indirectly: suggestions which he reads and hears can include observations that a particular technique has been successful in this or that district.
Simple sabotage may also have secondary results of more or less value.
Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.