Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
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Even if the technique is not applicable to his surroundings, another's success will encourage him to attempt similar acts.
Complain against ersatz materials.
The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly.
Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.
A reasonable amount of humor in the presentation of suggestions for simple sabotage will relax tensions of fear.
Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.
Stop all conversation when axis nationals or quislings enter a cafe.
General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creat ing Confusion
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.
Specific examples, which need not be from his own field, should accomplish this.
The ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate personal motive for committing simple sabotage. Instead, he must be made to anticipate indirect personal gain, such as might come with enemy evacuation or destruction of the ruling government group.
The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.
Specific examples, which need not be from his own field, should accomplish this.
Apply all regulations to the last letter.
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.
Multiply paper work in plausible ways.
In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
If you commit sabotage on your job, you should naturally stay at your work.
Do not cooperate in salvage schemes.
Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.
Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.
Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.
A state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.