Simple Sabotage Field Manual

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

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

Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that requiredetailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerablesimple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform. Thispaper is primarily concerned with the latter type. Simple sabotage does notrequire specially prepared tools or equipment; it is executed by an ordinarycitizen who may or may not act individually and without the necessity foractive connection with an organized group; and it is carried out in such a wayas to involve a minimum danger of injury, detection, and reprisal.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt,nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally beexpected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particularoccupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kitof tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to whichhe has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever andproduces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based onuniversal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a noncooperativeattitude, and to induce others to follow suit. Making a faulty decision may besimply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another. A

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