Simple Sabotage Field Manual

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

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

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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.

detection, and reprisal.

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,

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

Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

He frequently needs pressure, stimulation or assurance, and information and suggestions regarding feasible methods of simple sabotage.

Work slowly.

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

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

Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.

Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

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

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

It should be pointed out to the saboteur where the circumstances are suitable, that he is acting in self-defense against the enemy, or retaliating against the enemy for other acts of destruction.

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

Confuse similar names.

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.

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.