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OSS (pre-CIA) Simple Sabotage Field Manual

58 pointsby simanyayover 15 years ago

15 comments

celoydover 15 years ago
My grandmother had to work in factories under the Nazis toward the end of WWII, and anyone doing this sort of thing would have been taken outside and shot.<p>She says they were told not to work too slow, because that was sabotage, and not too fast, because that was bad for the morale of the others. Her main problems were with the POW workers (slaves), who tried to kill all the Germans they could. Several times, heavy weights were dropped off railings just above her, etc.
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hughprimeover 15 years ago
If I were the OSS I would have written up this section of the booklet and then leaked it directly to the enemy at all possible levels. What better way to cause chaos among the German bureaucracy than to spread paranoia that anyone engaged in normal bureaucratic dithering, patriotic speechifying or bad handwriting might actually be a saboteur?
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varjagover 15 years ago
Wow, so Dilbert is really about CIA conspiracy!
ngsover 15 years ago
If you want to read something interesting regarding sponsored subversion, I recommend 'Legacy of Ashes' by Tim Weiner. Fantastic hacks and incredible, yet true and widely uncredited events in US and world history executed by the OSS and CIA.
adatta02over 15 years ago
(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion<p><i>(e) Act stupid. </i><p>-clearly why we won the war
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Erfover 15 years ago
This, incidentally, reads like a business how-not-to.
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d_cover 15 years ago
Could be partly the little bureaucrats guide to heaven.
abalashovover 15 years ago
<i>Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to, expedite decisions. </i><p>Ahahaha.<p>Post-war and enduringly postmillenial corporate America, anyone?
shin_laoover 15 years ago
At first I thought this was the training manual of French Administration personal...
dustingetzover 15 years ago
is this for real?
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javeryover 15 years ago
I think this is the playbook that the GOP in congress is playing by.
tlrobinsonover 15 years ago
It's comical how much this sounds like some peoples' workplaces.
moeffjuover 15 years ago
a.k.a "Politics &#38; Economics - The Missing Manual"<p>I'll be keeping this as a HOW-NOT-TO reference.
DXLover 15 years ago
For people like me, who get a Firefox security error message, try the links without the s in https:<p><a href="http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html" rel="nofollow">http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabota...</a>
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onreact-comover 15 years ago
"svn.cacert.org uses an invalid security certificate.<p>The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted."