Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment.

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

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.

Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

regarding the tools by means of which destruction is accomplished.

Among the potential citizen-saboteurs who are to engage in physical destruction, two extreme types may be distinguished. On the one hand, there is the man who is not technically trained and employed. This man needs specific suggestions as to what he can and should destroy as well as details

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

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

Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

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.

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

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

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

Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once.

This type of activity, sometimes referred to as the 'human element,' is frequently responsible for accidents, delays, and general obstruction even under normal condi tions.

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

Estimates of the proportion of the population engaged in sabotage can be disseminated.

Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.

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.

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

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

Multiply the procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, and so on.

Further, success may embolden the citizen-saboteur eventually to find colleagues who can assist him in sabotage of greater dimensions.

The instructions may be placed in separate pamphlets or leaflets according to categories of operations but should be distributed with care and not broadly.

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.

Finally, the very practice of simple sabotage by natives in enemy or occupied territory may make these individuals identify themselves actively with the United Nations war effort, and encourage them to assist openly in periods of Allied invasion and occupation.

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.