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    Simple Sabotage Field Manual
    Simple Sabotage Field Manual
    Simple Sabotage Field Manual
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    Simple Sabotage Field Manual

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      Simple Sabotage Field Manual - United States Office of Strategic Services

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Strategic Services

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Simple Sabotage Field Manual

      Author: Strategic Services

      Release Date: August 4, 2008 [eBook #26184] [Most recently updated August 10, 2008]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL***

      This eBook was prepared by David Reed.

      Etext of Simple Sabotage Field Manual

      Office of Strategic Services

      SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL

      Strategic Services

      (Provisional)

      Prepared under direction of The Director of Strategic Services

      OSS REPRODUCTION BRANCH

      SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL

      Strategic Services

      (Provisional)

      STRATEGIC SERVICES FIELD MANUAL No. 3

      Office of Strategic Services

      Washington, D. C.

      17 January 1944

      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.

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

      The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly. They should be used as a basis of radio broadcasts only for local and special cases and as directed by the theater commander.

      AR 380-5, pertaining to handling of secret documents, will be complied with in the handling of this Manual.

      William J. Donovan

      CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. POSSIBLE EFFECTS 3. MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR 4. TOOLS, TARGETS, AND TIMING 5. SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE

      1. INTRODUCTION

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

      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. Simple sabotage does not require specially prepared tools or equipment; it is executed by an ordinary citizen who may or may not act individually and without the necessity for active connection with an organized group; and it is carried out in such a way as to involve a minimum danger of injury, detection, and reprisal.

      Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

      A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a noncooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit. Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another. 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.

      This type of activity, sometimes referred to as the human element, is frequently responsible for accidents, delays, and general obstruction even under normal conditions. The potential saboteur should discover what types of faulty decisions and the operations are normally found in this

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