Notices by Simple Sabotage Field Manual (simple_sabotage@mastodon.social)

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Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.

Misfile essential documents.

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, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.

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

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

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.

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

Snarl up administration in every possible way.

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

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.

Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders.

If you are cutting, shaping or doing other measured work, measure dimensions twice as often as you need to.

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

Act stupid.

Encouraging Destructiveness

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

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.

Act stupid.

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