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The World War Two guide to office warfare

The US urged citizens to become everyday saboteurs in World War Two – and the same tactics might just be in operation in your office.

By Bryan Lufkin11 December 2017
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171211-the-world-war-two-guide-to-office-warfare

Spies and saboteurs have long been part of warfare, but have you ever considered your meddling colleague may be using the same tried-and-true tactics?

In 2008, the US Central Intelligence Agency made public a World War Two-era handbook written for grassroots sabotage.

Titled the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, the aim of the handbook was to help citizens in occupied Allied countries bring down their governments from within – whether it was meddling with a military car on the streets in the dead of night, or casually lighting a warehouse on fire.

The 32-page document created in 1944 by the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, was translated in to multiple languages and distributed from Greece to Norway and beyond.

“Many of the sabotage instructions guide ordinary citizens, who may not have agreed with their country’s wartime policies towards the US, to destabilise their governments by taking disruptive actions,” the CIA website states. “Some of the instructions seem outdated; others remain surprisingly relevant. Together they are a reminder of how easily productivity and order can be undermined.
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf