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