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.
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Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
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He frequently needs pressure, stimulation or assurance, and information and suggestions regarding feasible methods of simple sabotage.
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detection, and reprisal.
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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,
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If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the man agement.
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Hold up mail until the next collection.
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When training new workers, give in complete or misleading instructions.
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See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.
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Further, success may embolden the citizen-saboteur eventually to find colleagues who can assist him in sabotage of greater dimensions.
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A state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.
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Use wrong addresses.
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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.
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Misfile essential documents.
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Multiply paper work in plausible ways.
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Acts of simple sabotage, multiplied by thousands of citizen- saboteurs, can be an effective weapon against the enemy.
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Even if the technique is not applicable to his surroundings, another's success will encourage him to attempt similar acts.
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His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies.
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Even if you speak the language, pretend not to understand instructions in a foreign tongue.
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The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking, and he should be told this in so many words.
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When training new workers, give in complete or misleading instructions.
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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.
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In making carbon copies, make one too few, so that an extra copying job will have to be done.
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Purposeful stupidity is contrary to human nature.
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MOTIVATING THE SABOTEUR
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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.
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Specific examples, which need not be from his own field, should accomplish this.
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If you commit sabotage on your job, you should naturally stay at your work.
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reads and hears can include observations that a particular technique has been successful in this or that district.
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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
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