Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Use wrong addresses.

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.

Misfile essential documents.

Multiply paper work in plausible ways.

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

Even if the technique is not applicable to his surroundings, another's success will encourage him to attempt similar acts.

His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies.

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

The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking, and he should be told this in so many words.

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

Acts of simple sabotage are occurring throughout Europe. An effort should be made to add to their efficiency, lessen their detectability, and increase their number.

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

Purposeful stupidity is contrary to human nature.

MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR

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.

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

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

reads and hears can include observations that a particular technique has been successful in this or that district.

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

Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another.

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

General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion

so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.

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,

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.

Encouraging Destructiveness

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

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

Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.

MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR