Speaker 1: Section two of Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the United
Speaker 1: States Office of Strategic Services. This LibriVox recording is in
Speaker 1: the public domain. Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States
Speaker 1: Office of Strategic Services. Section two five Specific suggestions for
Speaker 1: simple sabotage. It will not be possible to evaluate the
Speaker 1: desirability of simple sabotage in an area without having in mind,
Speaker 1: rather specifically, what individual acts and results are embraced by
Speaker 1: the definition of simple sabotage. A listing of specific acts follows,
Speaker 1: classified according to types of target. This list is presented
Speaker 1: as a growing rather than a complete outline of the
Speaker 1: methods of simple sabotage. As new techniques are developed or
Speaker 1: new fields explored, it will be elaborated and expanded. One buildings, warehouses, barracks, offices, hotels,
Speaker 1: and factory buildings are outstanding targets for simple sabotage. They
Speaker 1: are extremely susceptible to damage, especially by fire. They offer
Speaker 1: opportunities to such untrained people as janitors, charwoman and casual visitors,
Speaker 1: and when damaged, they present a relatively large handicap to
Speaker 1: the enemy. A fires can be started wherever there is
Speaker 1: an accumulation of inflammable material warehouses are obviously the most
Speaker 1: promising targets, but incendiary sabotage need not be confined to
Speaker 1: them alone. One, whenever possible, arrange to have the fire
Speaker 1: start after you have gone away. Use a candle in
Speaker 1: paper combination, setting it as close as possible to the
Speaker 1: inflammable material you want to burn. From a sheet of paper,
Speaker 1: tear a strip three or four centimeters wide and wrap
Speaker 1: it around the base of the candle. Two or three times,
Speaker 1: twist more sheets of paper into loose ropes and place
Speaker 1: them around the base of the candle. When the candle
Speaker 1: flame reaches the encircling strip, it will be ignited, and
Speaker 1: in turn will ignite the surrounding paper. The size, heat,
Speaker 1: and duration of the resulting flame will depend on how
Speaker 1: much paper you use and how much of it you
Speaker 1: can cram into a small space. Two With a flame
Speaker 1: of this kind, do not attempt to ignite any but
Speaker 1: rather inflammable materials such as cotton sacking. To light more
Speaker 1: resistant materials, use a candle plus tightly rolled or twist
Speaker 1: of paper which has been soaked in gasoline to create
Speaker 1: a briefer but even hotter flame. Put celluloid such as
Speaker 1: you might find in an old comb into a nest
Speaker 1: of plain or saturated paper, which is to be fired
Speaker 1: by a candle. Three. To make another type of simple fuse,
Speaker 1: soak one end of a piece of string in grease.
Speaker 1: Rub a generous pinch of gunpowder over the inch of
Speaker 1: string where greasy string meets clean string, Then ignite the
Speaker 1: clean end of the string. It will burn slowly without
Speaker 1: a flame, in much the same way that a cigarette
Speaker 1: burns until it reaches the grease and gunpowder. It will
Speaker 1: then flare up suddenly. The grease treated string will then
Speaker 1: burn with a flame. The same effect may be achieved
Speaker 1: by using matches instead of the grease and gunpowder. Run
Speaker 1: the string over the match heads, taking care that the
Speaker 1: string is not pressed or knotted. They too will produce
Speaker 1: a sudden flame. The advantage of this type of fuse
Speaker 1: is that the string burns at a set speed. You
Speaker 1: can time your flame by the length and thickness of
Speaker 1: the string you choose. Four. Use a fuse such as
Speaker 1: the one suggested above to start a fire in an
Speaker 1: office after hours. The destruction of records and other types
Speaker 1: of documents would be a serious handicap to the enemy. Five.
Speaker 1: In basements where waste is kept, Janitors should accumulate oily
Speaker 1: and greasy waste. Such waste sometimes ignites spontaneously, but it
Speaker 1: can easily be lit with a cigarette or match. If
Speaker 1: you are a janitor on night duty, you can be
Speaker 1: the first to report the fire, but don't report it
Speaker 1: too soon. Six. A clean factory is not susceptible to fire,
Speaker 1: but a dirty one is. Workers should be careless with refuse,
Speaker 1: and janitors should be inefficient in cleaning. If enough dirt
Speaker 1: and trash can be accumulated, then otherwise fireproof building will
Speaker 1: become inflammable. Seven. Where illuminating gas is used in a
Speaker 1: room which is vacant at night, shut the windows tightly,
Speaker 1: turn on the gas, and leave a candle burning in
Speaker 1: the room, closing the door tightly behind you. After a time,
Speaker 1: the gas will explode, and if fire may or may
Speaker 1: not follow. B Water and miscellaneous. One ruin warehouse stock
Speaker 1: by setting the automatic sprinkler system to work. You can
Speaker 1: do this by tapping the sprinkler head sharply with a
Speaker 1: hammer or by holding a match under them. Two. Forget
Speaker 1: to provide paper in toilets, put tightly rolled paper, hair
Speaker 1: and other obstructions in the WC saturate a sponge with
Speaker 1: a thick starch or sugar solution, squeeze it tightly into
Speaker 1: a ball, wrap it with string, and dry. Remove the string.
Speaker 1: When fully dry, the sponge will be in the form
Speaker 1: of a tight hard ball. Flush down a WC, or
Speaker 1: otherwise introduce into a sewer line. The sponge will gradually
Speaker 1: expand to its normal size and plug the sewage system.
Speaker 1: Three Put a coin beneath a bulb and a public
Speaker 1: building during the daytime so that the fuses will blow
Speaker 1: out when the lights are turned on at night. The
Speaker 1: fuses themselves may be rendered ineffective by putting a coin
Speaker 1: behind them or loading them with heavy wire. Then a
Speaker 1: short circuit may either start a fire, damage transformers, or
Speaker 1: blow out a central fuse, which will interrupt distribution of
Speaker 1: electricity to a large area. Four Jam paper, bits of wood,
Speaker 1: hair pins, and anything else that will fit into the
Speaker 1: locks of all unguarded entrances to public buildings. Two Industrial
Speaker 1: production manufacturing a tools. One. Let cutting tools grow dull.
Speaker 1: They will be inefficient, will slow down production, and may
Speaker 1: damage them materials in parts you use them on. Two
Speaker 1: Leave saws slightly twisted when you are not using them.
Speaker 1: After a while, they will break when used. Three using
Speaker 1: a very rapid stroke will wear out a file before
Speaker 1: its time. So while dragging a file in slow strokes
Speaker 1: under heavy pressure, exert pressure on the backward stroke as
Speaker 1: well as the forward stroke. Four clean files by knocking
Speaker 1: them against the vice of the workpiece. They are easily
Speaker 1: broken this way. Five bits and drills will snap under
Speaker 1: heavy pressure. Six. You can put a press punch out
Speaker 1: of order by putting in it more material than it
Speaker 1: is adjusted for two blanks instead of one, for example. Seven.
Speaker 1: Power driven tools like pneumatic drills, riveters, and so on
Speaker 1: are never efficient when dirty. Lubrication points in electric contacts
Speaker 1: can easily be fouled by normal accumulation of dirt or
Speaker 1: the insertion of foreign matter. B Oil and lubrication systems
Speaker 1: are not only vulnerable to easy sabotage, but are critical
Speaker 1: in every machine with moving parts. Sabotage of oil and
Speaker 1: lubrication will slow production or stop work entirely at strategic
Speaker 1: points in industrial processes. One put metal dust or filings,
Speaker 1: fine sand, ground glass, emery dust. Get it by pounding
Speaker 1: up an emery knife, sharpener, and similar hard gritty substances
Speaker 1: directly into lubrication systems. They will scour smooth surfaces, ruining pistons,
Speaker 1: cylinder walls, shafts, and bearings. They will overheat and stop motors,
Speaker 1: which will need overhauling, new parts and extensive repairs. Such materials,
Speaker 1: if they are used, should be introduced into lubrication systems
Speaker 1: past any filters which otherwise would strain them out. Two.
Speaker 1: You can cause wear on any machine by uncovering a
Speaker 1: filter system, poking a pencil or any other sharp object
Speaker 1: through the filter mesh, then covering it up again, Or
Speaker 1: you can dispose of it quickly simply remove the filter.
Speaker 1: Three if you cannot get it, if to lubrication system
Speaker 1: or filtered directly. You may be able to lessen the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of oil by diluting it in storage. In this case,
Speaker 1: almost any liquid will do which will thin the oil.
Speaker 1: A small amount of sulfuric acid, varnish water, glass, or
Speaker 1: linseed oil will be especially effective. Four. Using a thin
Speaker 1: oil where a heavy oil is prescribed will break down
Speaker 1: a machine or heat up a moving shaft so that
Speaker 1: it will freeze and stop. Five. Put any clogging substance
Speaker 1: into lubrication systems, or if it will float into stored oil.
Speaker 1: Twisted combings of human hair, pieces of string, dead insects,
Speaker 1: and many other common objects will be effective in stopping
Speaker 1: or hindering the flow of oil through feed lines and filters. Six.
Speaker 1: Under some circumstances, you may be able to destroy oil
Speaker 1: outright rather than interfere with its effectiveness, by removing stop
Speaker 1: plugs from lubricating systems, or by puncturing the drums and
Speaker 1: cans in which it is stored. C cooling systems. One.
Speaker 1: A water cooling system can be put out of commission
Speaker 1: in a fairly short time with considerable damage to an
Speaker 1: engine or motor. If you put into it several pinches
Speaker 1: of hard grain, such as rice or wheat, they will
Speaker 1: swell up and choke the circulation of water, and the
Speaker 1: cooling system will have to be torn down to remove
Speaker 1: the obstruction. Sawdust or hair may also be used to
Speaker 1: clog a water cooling system. Two. If very cold water
Speaker 1: is quickly introduced into the cooling system of an overheated motor,
Speaker 1: contraction and considerable strain on the engine housing will result.
Speaker 1: If you can repeat the treatment a few times, cracking
Speaker 1: in serious damage will result. Three. You can ruin the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of an air cooling system by plugging dirt and
Speaker 1: waste into the intake or exhaust valves. If a belt
Speaker 1: run fan is used in the system, make a jagged
Speaker 1: cut at least halfway through the belt. It will slip
Speaker 1: and finally part under strain and the motor will overheat.
Speaker 1: D gasol, sine, and oil fuel tanks and fueling engines
Speaker 1: usually are accessible and easy to open. They afford a
Speaker 1: very vulnerable target for simple sabotage activities. One put several
Speaker 1: pinches of sawdust or hard grain such as rice or
Speaker 1: wheat into the fuel tank of a gasoline engine. The
Speaker 1: particles will choke a feed line so that the engine
Speaker 1: will stop. Some time will be required to discover the
Speaker 1: source of the trouble, although they will be hard to get.
Speaker 1: Crumbs of natural rubber, such as you might find in
Speaker 1: old rubber bands and pencil erasers are also effective. Two.
Speaker 1: If you can accumulate sugar, put it in the fuel
Speaker 1: tank of a gasoline engine. As it burns together with
Speaker 1: the gasoline, it will turn into a sticky mess, which
Speaker 1: will completely mire the engine and necessitate extensive cleaning and repair.
Speaker 1: Honey and molasses are as good as sugar. Try to
Speaker 1: use about seventy five to one hundred grams for each
Speaker 1: ten gallons of gasoline. Three Other impurities which you can
Speaker 1: introduce in the gasoline will cause rapid engine were an
Speaker 1: eventual breakdown. Fine particles of pumice, sand, ground glass, and
Speaker 1: metal dust can easily be introduced into a gasoline tank.
Speaker 1: Be sure that the particles are very fine so that
Speaker 1: they will be able to pass through the carburetor. Jet.
Speaker 1: Four Water, urine, wine, or any other simple liquid which
Speaker 1: you can get in reasonably large quantities will dilute gasoline
Speaker 1: fuel to a point where no combustion will occur in
Speaker 1: the cylinder and the engine will not move. One pint
Speaker 1: to twenty gallons of gasoline is sufficient. If salt water
Speaker 1: is used, it will cause corrosion and permanent motor damage. Five.
Speaker 1: In the case of diesel engines, put low flash point
Speaker 1: oil into the fuel tank. The engine will not move
Speaker 1: if there are already is proper oil in the tank.
Speaker 1: When the wrong kind is added, the engine will only
Speaker 1: limp and sputter along. Six. Fuel lines to gasoline and
Speaker 1: oil engines frequently pass over the exhaust pipe when the
Speaker 1: machine is at rest. You can stab a small hole
Speaker 1: in the fuel line and plug the hole with wax.
Speaker 1: As the engine runs and the exhaust tube becomes hot,
Speaker 1: the wax will be melted, fuel will drip onto the exhaust,
Speaker 1: and a blaze will start. Seven. If you have access
Speaker 1: to a room where gasoline is stored, remember that gas
Speaker 1: vapor accumulating in a closed room will explode after a
Speaker 1: time if you leave a candle burning in the room.
Speaker 1: A good deal of evaporation, however, must occur from the
Speaker 1: gasolene tins into the air of the room. If removal
Speaker 1: of the tops of the tins does not expose enough
Speaker 1: gasoline to the air to ensure copious evaporation, you can
Speaker 1: open lightly constructed tents further with a knife, ice pick,
Speaker 1: or sharpened nail file, or puncture a tiny hole in
Speaker 1: the tank which will permit gasoline to leak out on
Speaker 1: the floor. This will greatly increase the rate of evaporation.
Speaker 1: Before you light your candle, be sure that windows are
Speaker 1: closed and that the room is as air tight as
Speaker 1: you can make it. If you can see that windows
Speaker 1: in a neighboring room are opened wide, you have a
Speaker 1: chance of setting a large fire which will not only
Speaker 1: destroy the gasoline but anything else nearby. When the gasoline explodes,
Speaker 1: the doors of the storage room will be blown open.
Speaker 1: A draft to the neighboring windows will be created, which
Speaker 1: will whip up a fine conflagration e Electric motors. Electric motors,
Speaker 1: including dynamos, are more restricted than the target so far discussed.
Speaker 1: They cannot be sabotaged easily or without risk of injury
Speaker 1: by unskilled persons who may otherwise have good opportunities for destruction.
Speaker 1: One set the rheostat to a high point of resistance
Speaker 1: in all types of electric motors, they will overheat and
Speaker 1: catch fire. Two adjust the overload relay to a very
Speaker 1: high value beyond the capacity of the motor. Then overload
Speaker 1: the motor to a point where it will overheat and
Speaker 1: break down. Three. Remember that dust, dirt, and moisture are
Speaker 1: enemies of electrical equipment. Spill dust and dirt onto the
Speaker 1: points where the wires and electric motors connect with terminals
Speaker 1: and onto insulating parts. Inefficient transmission of current and as
Speaker 1: in some cases, short circuits will result. Wet generator motors
Speaker 1: to produce short circuits. Four, Accidentally bruise the insulation on wire,
Speaker 1: loosen nuts on connections, make faulty splices, and faulty connections
Speaker 1: in wiring to waste electric current and reduce the power
Speaker 1: of electric motors the power output, or cause short circuiting
Speaker 1: in direct current motors. Loosen or remove commutator holding rings.
Speaker 1: Sprinkle carbon graphite or metal dust on commutators. Put a
Speaker 1: little grease or oil at the contact points of commutators.
Speaker 1: Where commutator bars are close together, bridge the gaps between
Speaker 1: them with metal dust or saw tooth their edges with
Speaker 1: a chisel so that the teeth on adjoining bars meet
Speaker 1: or nearly meat, and current can pass from one to
Speaker 1: the other. Six Put a piece of finely grained emery
Speaker 1: paper half the size of a postage stamp in a
Speaker 1: place where we'll wear away rotating brushes. The emery paper
Speaker 1: and the motor will be destroyed in the resulting fire. Seven.
Speaker 1: Sprinkle carbon graphite or metal dust on slip rings so
Speaker 1: the current will leak or short circuits will occur when
Speaker 1: a motor is idle. Knick the slip rings with a chisel. Eight.
Speaker 1: Cause motor stopage your inefficiency by applying dust mixed with
Speaker 1: grease to the face of the armature so that it
Speaker 1: will not make proper contact. Nine to overheat electric motors,
Speaker 1: mix sand with heavy grease and smear it between the
Speaker 1: stater and rotor, or wedge thin metal pieces between them.
Speaker 1: To prevent the efficient generation of current, put floor sweepings,
Speaker 1: oil tar, or paint between them. Ten in motors using
Speaker 1: three phase current, deeply nick one of the lead in
Speaker 1: wires with a knife or file when the machine is
Speaker 1: at rest, or replace one of the three fuses with
Speaker 1: a blown out fuse. In the first case, the motor
Speaker 1: will stop after running a while, and in the second
Speaker 1: it will not start. F transformers. One transformers of the
Speaker 1: oil filled type can be put out of commission if
Speaker 1: you pour water salt into the oil tank. Two in
Speaker 1: air cool trains block the ventilation by piling debris around
Speaker 1: the transformer. Three in all types of transformers throw carbon,
Speaker 1: graphite or metal dust over the outside bushings and other
Speaker 1: exposed electrical parts. G turbines, for the most part, are
Speaker 1: heavily built, stoutly housed, and difficult to access. Their vulnerability
Speaker 1: to simple sabotage is very low. One after inspecting or
Speaker 1: repairing a hydro turbine, fasten the cover insecurely so that
Speaker 1: it will blow off and flood the plant with water.
Speaker 1: A loose cover on a steam turbine will cause it
Speaker 1: to leak and slow down. Two. In water turbines, insert
Speaker 1: a large piece of scrap iron in the head of
Speaker 1: the pen stock just beyond the screening, so that water
Speaker 1: will carry the damaging material down to the plant equipment. Three.
Speaker 1: When the steam line to a turbine is open for repair,
Speaker 1: put pieces of scrap iron into it to be blasted
Speaker 1: into the turbine machinery when the steam is up again. Four,
Speaker 1: Create a leak in the line feeding oil to the
Speaker 1: turbine so that oil will fall in the hot steam
Speaker 1: pipe and cause a fire. H boilers. One. Reduce the
Speaker 1: efficiency of steam boilers any way. You can put too
Speaker 1: much water in them to make them slow starting, or
Speaker 1: keep the fire under them low to keep them inefficient.
Speaker 1: Let them run dry and turn the fire up. They
Speaker 1: will crack and be ruined. An especially good trick is
Speaker 1: to keep putting limestone or water containing lime in the boiler.
Speaker 1: It will deposit lime on the bottom and sides. This
Speaker 1: deposit will provide very good insulation against heat. After enough
Speaker 1: of it has collected, the boiler will be completely worthless.
Speaker 1: Three production metals a iron and steel. One keep blast
Speaker 1: furnaces in a condition where they must be frequently shut
Speaker 1: down for repair. In making fireproof bricks. For the inner
Speaker 1: lining of blast furnaces, put in an extra proportion of
Speaker 1: tar so that they will wear out quickly and necessitate
Speaker 1: constant relining. Two. Make cores for casting so that they
Speaker 1: are filled with air bubbles and an imperfect cast results. Three.
Speaker 1: See that the core in a mold is not properly supported,
Speaker 1: so that the core gives way or the casting is
Speaker 1: spoiled because of the incorrect position of the core. Four.
Speaker 1: In tempering steel or iron, apply too much heat so
Speaker 1: that the resulting bars and ingots are of poor quality.
Speaker 1: B other metals no suggestions available. Four. Production mining and
Speaker 1: mineral extraction a coal One. A slight blow against your
Speaker 1: davy oil lamp will extinguish it, and to light it
Speaker 1: again you will have to find the place where there
Speaker 1: is no fire damp. Take a long time looking for
Speaker 1: a place. Two. Blacksmiths who make pneumatic picks should not
Speaker 1: harden them properly, so that they will quickly grow dull.
Speaker 1: Three You can easily put your pneumatic pick out of order,
Speaker 1: pour a small amount of water through the oil lever,
Speaker 1: and your pick will stop working. Coal dust and improper
Speaker 1: lubrication will also put it out of order. Four weaken
Speaker 1: the chain that pulls the bucket conveyors carrying coal. A
Speaker 1: deep den in the chain made with blows of a
Speaker 1: pick or shovel will cause it to part under normal strain.
Speaker 1: Once a chain breaks normally or otherwise, take your time
Speaker 1: about reporting the damage. Be slow about taking the chain
Speaker 1: up for repairs and bringing it back down after repairs.
Speaker 1: Five derail mine cars by putting obstructions on the rails
Speaker 1: and in switch points. If possible, pick a gallery where
Speaker 1: coal cars have to pass each other so that traffic
Speaker 1: will be snarled up. Six send up quantities of rock
Speaker 1: and other useless material with the coal. Five Production agriculture
Speaker 1: a machinery one see paragraph five B two C, D,
Speaker 1: e B. Crops in live stock probably will be destroyed
Speaker 1: only in places where there are large food surpluses or
Speaker 1: where the enemy regime is known to be requisitioning food.
Speaker 1: One fee crops to livestock, let crops harvest too early
Speaker 1: or too late. Spoil stores of grain, fruit and vegetables
Speaker 1: by soaking them in water so that they will rot.
Speaker 1: Spoil fruit and vegetables by leaving them in the sun.
Speaker 1: Six Transportation railways A passengers. One, make train travel as
Speaker 1: inconvenient as possible for enemy personnel. Make mistakes in issuing
Speaker 1: train tickets, leaving portions of the journey uncovered by the
Speaker 1: ticket book. Issue two tickets for the same seat in
Speaker 1: the train, so that an interesting argument will result near
Speaker 1: train time. Instead of issuing printed tickets, write them out
Speaker 1: slowly by hand, prolonging the process until a train is
Speaker 1: nearly ready to leave or is left the station. On
Speaker 1: station bulletin boards announcing train arrivals and departures, see that
Speaker 1: false and misleading information is given about train bounds for
Speaker 1: enemy destinations. Two. In trains bound for enemy destinations, attendant
Speaker 1: should make life as uncomfortable as possible for passengers. See
Speaker 1: that the food it is especially bad. Take up tickets
Speaker 1: after midnight. Call all station stops very loudly during the night.
Speaker 1: Handle baggage as noisily as possible during the night, and
Speaker 1: so on. Three. See that the luggage of enemy personnel
Speaker 1: is mislaid or unloaded at the wrong stations. Switch address
Speaker 1: labels on enemy baggage. Four. Engineers should see that trains
Speaker 1: run slow or make unscheduled stops for plausible reasons. B
Speaker 1: switches signals in routing. One Exchange wires and switchboards containing
Speaker 1: signals and switches so that they connect to the wrong terminals. Two.
Speaker 1: Loosen push rods so that signal arms do not work.
Speaker 1: Break signal lights. Exchange the colored lenses on red and
Speaker 1: green lights. Three spread and spikes switch points in the
Speaker 1: track so that they will not move or place rocks
Speaker 1: or close packed dirt between the switch points. Four. Sprinkle
Speaker 1: rock salt or ordinary salt profusely over the electrical connections
Speaker 1: of switch points and on the ground nearby. When it rains,
Speaker 1: the switch will be short circuited. Five. See that cars
Speaker 1: are put on the wrong trains. Remove the labels from
Speaker 1: cars needing repair and put them on cars in good order.
Speaker 1: Leave couplings between the cars as loose as possible. C
Speaker 1: road beds and open track. One On a curve, take
Speaker 1: the bolts out of the tie plates connecting to sections
Speaker 1: of the outside rail, and scoop away the gravel cinders
Speaker 1: are dirt for a few feet on each side of
Speaker 1: the connecting joint. Two. If by disconnecting the tie plate
Speaker 1: at a joint and loosening sleeper nails on each side
Speaker 1: of the joint. It becomes possible to move a section
Speaker 1: of rail, spread two sections of rail, and drive a
Speaker 1: spike vertically between them. D Oil and lubrication one C
Speaker 1: five B two B two. Squeeze lubricating pipes with pinchers
Speaker 1: or dent them with hammers so that the flow of
Speaker 1: oil is obstructed. E Cooling systems one C five B
Speaker 1: two C F Gasoline and oil fuel one C five
Speaker 1: b two D. G Electric motors one C five B
Speaker 1: two E and F H boilers one C five B
Speaker 1: two H two after inspection, put heavy oil or tar
Speaker 1: in the engine's boilers, or put half a kilogram of
Speaker 1: soft soap into the water in the tender. I Brakes
Speaker 1: and miscellaneous. One. Engines should be run at high speeds
Speaker 1: and use brakes excessively at curves on downhill grades. Two.
Speaker 1: Punch holes in air brake valves or water supply pipes.
Speaker 1: Three in the last car of a passenger train or
Speaker 1: a front car of a freight Remove the wadding from
Speaker 1: a journal box and replace it with oily rags. Seven.
Speaker 1: Transportation automotive A roads. Damage to roads three below is
Speaker 1: slow and therefore impractical, as a D day or near
Speaker 1: D day activity. One, change signposts at intersections and forks.
Speaker 1: The enemy will go the wrong way and it may
Speaker 1: be miles before he discovers his mistakes. In areas where
Speaker 1: traffic is composed primarily of enemy autos, trucks and motor
Speaker 1: convoys of various kinds, remove danger signs from curves and intersections. Two.
Speaker 1: When the enemy asks for directions, give him wrong information,
Speaker 1: especially when enemy convoys are in the neighborhood. Truck drivers
Speaker 1: can spread rumors and give false information about bridges being out,
Speaker 1: ferries closed, and detours lying ahead. Three. If you can
Speaker 1: start damage to a heavily traveled road, passing traffic and
Speaker 1: the elements will do the rest. Construction gains can see
Speaker 1: that too much sand or water is put in concrete,
Speaker 1: or that the road foundation has soft spots. Anyone can
Speaker 1: scoop ruts and asphalt and the catam roads which turn
Speaker 1: soft in hot weather. Passing trucks will accentuate the ruts
Speaker 1: to a point where substantial repair will be near. Dirt
Speaker 1: roads can also be scooped out. If you are a
Speaker 1: road laborer, it will only be a few minutes work
Speaker 1: to divert a small stream from a sluice so that
Speaker 1: it runs over and eats away the road. Four distribute
Speaker 1: broken glass, nails and sharp rocks on roads to puncture tires.
Speaker 1: B passengers. One bus driver can go past the stop
Speaker 1: where the enemy wants to get off. Taxi drivers can
Speaker 1: waste the enemy's time and make extra money by driving
Speaker 1: the longest possible route to his destination. C Oil and
Speaker 1: lubrication one C five B two B two. Disconnect the
Speaker 1: oil pump. This will burn out the main bearings in
Speaker 1: less than fifty miles of normal driving. D Radiator one
Speaker 1: C five B two C E fuel one C five
Speaker 1: B two D F Battery and ignition one. Jam bits
Speaker 1: of wood into the ignition lock, loosener or exchange connections
Speaker 1: behind the switchboard. Put dirt in spark plugs, damage distributor points. Two.
Speaker 1: Turn on the lights and part cars so that the
Speaker 1: battery will run down. Three mechanics can ruin batteries in
Speaker 1: a number of undetectable ways. Take the valve cap off
Speaker 1: a cell and drive a screwdriver slantwise into the exposed
Speaker 1: water vent, shattering the plates of the cell. No damage
Speaker 1: will show when you put the cap back on. Iron
Speaker 1: or copper filings put into the cell i E. Dropped
Speaker 1: into the acid will greatly shorten its life. Copper coins
Speaker 1: or a few pieces of iron will accomplish the same thing,
Speaker 1: and more slowly. One hundred to one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: cubic centimeters of vinegar and each cell greatly reduces the
Speaker 1: life of the battery, but the odour of the vinegar
Speaker 1: may reveal what has happened. G gears one, remove the
Speaker 1: lubricant from or put two lighter lubrication and transmission and
Speaker 1: other gears two. In trucks, tractors, and other machines with
Speaker 1: heavy gears, fix the gear case in securely putting bolts
Speaker 1: in only half the bolt holes. The gears will be
Speaker 1: badly jolted in use and will soon need repairs. H
Speaker 1: tires one slash or puncture tires of unguarded vehicles. Put
Speaker 1: a nail inside a match box or other small box
Speaker 1: and set it vertically in front of the back tire
Speaker 1: of a stationary car. When the car starts off, the
Speaker 1: nail will go neatly through the tire. Two. It is
Speaker 1: easy to damage a tire in a tire repair shop.
Speaker 1: In fixing flats, spell glass, benzene caustic soda or other
Speaker 1: material inside the casing, which will puncture or corrode the tube.
Speaker 1: If you put a gummy substance inside the tube, the
Speaker 1: next flat will stick the tube to the casing and
Speaker 1: make it unusable. Or when you fix a flat tire,
Speaker 1: you can simply leave between the tube and the casing
Speaker 1: the object which caused the flat in the first place. Three.
Speaker 1: In assembling a tire after repair, pump the tube up
Speaker 1: as fast as you can. Instead of filling out smoothly,
Speaker 1: it may crease, in which case it will wear out quickly.
Speaker 1: Or as you put a tire together, see if you
Speaker 1: can pinch the two between the rim of the tire
Speaker 1: and the rim of the wheel so that a blowout
Speaker 1: will result. Four. In putting air into tires, see that
Speaker 1: they are kept below normal pressure so that a more
Speaker 1: than ordinary amount of wear will result. In filling tires
Speaker 1: on double wheels inflate the inner tire to a much
Speaker 1: higher pressure than the outer one. Both will wear out
Speaker 1: more quickly this way. Badly aligned wheels also wear tires
Speaker 1: out quickly. You can leave wheels out of alignment when
Speaker 1: they come in for adjustment, or you can spring them
Speaker 1: out of true with a strong kick, or by driving
Speaker 1: the car slowly and diagonally into a curb. Five. If
Speaker 1: you have access to stocks of tires, you can rot
Speaker 1: them by spilling oil, gasoline, caustic acid, or benzene on them.
Speaker 1: Synthetic rubber, however, is less susceptible to these chemicals. Eight.
Speaker 1: Transportation water a navigation. One barge in riverboat personnel should
Speaker 1: spread false rumors about the navigability and conditions of the
Speaker 1: waterways they travel. Tell other barge and boat captains to
Speaker 1: follow channels that will take extra time or cause them
Speaker 1: to take canal detours. Two. Barge and riverboat captains should
Speaker 1: navigate with exceeding caution near locks and bridges to waste
Speaker 1: their time and to waste the time of other craft
Speaker 1: which may have to wait on them. If you don't
Speaker 1: pump the billages of ships and barges often enough, they
Speaker 1: will be slower and harder to navigate. Barges accidentally run
Speaker 1: aground are an efficient time waster. Two. Three Attendant on
Speaker 1: swing draw or bascular bridges can delay traffic over the
Speaker 1: bridge or in the waterway underneath by being slow. Boat
Speaker 1: captains can leave unattended drawbridges open in order to hold
Speaker 1: up road traffic. Four add or subtract compensating magnets to
Speaker 1: the compass on cargo ships. Demagnetize the compass or maladjusted
Speaker 1: by concealing a large bar of steel or iron near
Speaker 1: to it. B cargo one while loading their unloading handle
Speaker 1: cargo carelessly in order to cause damage. Arrange the cargo
Speaker 1: so that the weakest and lightest crates and boxes will
Speaker 1: be at the bottom of the hold while the heaviest
Speaker 1: ones are on top of them. Put hatch covers and
Speaker 1: tarpaulins on sloppily so that rain and deckwash will injure
Speaker 1: the cargo. Tie float valves open so that storage tanks
Speaker 1: will overflow on perishable goods. Nine communications a telephone one
Speaker 1: at office, hotel and exchange switchboards. Delay putting enemy calls through,
Speaker 1: give them wrong numbers, cut them off accidentally, or forget
Speaker 1: to disconnect them so that the line cannot be used again.
Speaker 1: Two hamper official and especially military business by making at
Speaker 1: least one phone call a day to an enemy headquarters.
Speaker 1: When you get them, tell them you have the wrong number.
Speaker 1: Call military or police offices and make anonymous false reports
Speaker 1: of fires, air raids, bombs. Three in offices and buildings
Speaker 1: used by the enemy. Unscrew the earphone of telephone receivers
Speaker 1: and remove the diaphragm. Electricians and telephone repairmen can make
Speaker 1: poor connections and damage insulation so that crosstalk and other
Speaker 1: kinds of electrical interference will make conversations hard or impossible
Speaker 1: to understand. Four Put the batteries under automatic switchboards out
Speaker 1: of commission by dropping nails, metal filings, or coins into
Speaker 1: the cells. If you can treat half the batteries in
Speaker 1: this way, the switchboard will stop working. A whole telephone
Speaker 1: system can be disrupted if you can put ten percent
Speaker 1: of the cells and half the batteries of the central
Speaker 1: battery room out of order. B Telegraph one delay the
Speaker 1: transmission and delivery of telegrams to enemy destinations. Two. Garble
Speaker 1: telegrams to enemy destinations, so that another telegram will have
Speaker 1: to be sent or a long distance phone call will
Speaker 1: have to be made. Sometimes it will be possible to
Speaker 1: do this by changing a single letter in a word,
Speaker 1: for example, changing minimum to maximum, so that the person
Speaker 1: received leaving the telegram will not know whether minimum or
Speaker 1: maximum is meant. C. Transportation lines one cut telephone and
Speaker 1: telegraph transmission lines, damage insulation on power lines to cause
Speaker 1: interference d mail one. Post office employees can see to
Speaker 1: it that enemy mail is always delayed by one day
Speaker 1: or more, that it is put in the wrong sacks,
Speaker 1: and so on. E Motion pictures one projector operators can
Speaker 1: ruin newsreels and other enemy propaganda films by bad focusing,
Speaker 1: speeding up or slowing down the film, and by causing
Speaker 1: frequent breakage in the film. Two. Audiences can ruin enemy
Speaker 1: propaganda films by applauding to drown the words of the speaker,
Speaker 1: by coughing loudly, and by talking. Three. Anyone can break
Speaker 1: up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting
Speaker 1: two or three dozen large moths in a bag. Take
Speaker 1: the bag to the movies with you, put it on
Speaker 1: the floor in an empty section of the theater as
Speaker 1: you go in, and leave it open. The malls will
Speaker 1: fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that
Speaker 1: the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows. F Radio
Speaker 1: one station engineers will find it quite easy to over
Speaker 1: modulate transmissions of talks by persons giving enemy propaganda or
Speaker 1: instructions so that they will sound as if they were
Speaker 1: talking through a heavy cotton blanket with a mouthful of marbles.
Speaker 1: Two In your own apartment building, you can interfere with
Speaker 1: radio reception at times when the enemy wants everybody to listen.
Speaker 1: Take an electric light plug off the end of an
Speaker 1: electric light cord. Take some wire out of the cord
Speaker 1: and tie it across two terminals of a two prong
Speaker 1: plug or three terminals of a four prong plug. Then
Speaker 1: take it around and put it into as many wall
Speaker 1: and floor outlets as you can find. Each time you
Speaker 1: insert the plug into a new circuit, you will blow
Speaker 1: out a fuse and silence all radios running on power
Speaker 1: from that circuit until a new fuse is put in. Three.
Speaker 1: Damaging insulation on any electrical equipment tends to create radio
Speaker 1: interference in the immediate neighborhood, particularly on large generators, neon signs,
Speaker 1: fluorescent lighting, X ray machines, and power lines. If workman
Speaker 1: can damage insulation on a high tension line near an
Speaker 1: enemy airfield, they will make ground to plane radio communications
Speaker 1: difficult and perhaps impossible during long periods of the day.
Speaker 1: Ten electric power A turbines, electric motors, transformers one, C, five, B, two, E, F,
Speaker 1: and G B transmission lines one Linesmen can loosen and
Speaker 1: dirty insulators to cause power leakage. It will be quite easy, too,
Speaker 1: for them to tie a piece of very heavy string
Speaker 1: several times back and forth between two parallel transmission lines,
Speaker 1: winding it several turns around the wire each time. Beforehand,
Speaker 1: the string should be heavily saturated with salt and then dried.
Speaker 1: When it rains, the string becomes a conductor and a
Speaker 1: short circuit will result. Eleven General interference with organizations and
Speaker 1: production A organizations and conferences. One insist on doing everything
Speaker 1: through channels. Never permit shortcuts to be taken in order
Speaker 1: to expedite decisions. Two make speeches, talk as frequently as
Speaker 1: possible and at great length. Illustrate your points by long
Speaker 1: anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make
Speaker 1: a few appropriate patriotic comments. Three, when possible, refer all
Speaker 1: matters to committees for further study and consideration. Attempt to
Speaker 1: make the committees as large as possible, never less than five. Four.
Speaker 1: Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. Five Haggle
Speaker 1: over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions. Six Refer back
Speaker 1: to matters decided upon at the last meeting, and attempt
Speaker 1: to reopen the question of the advisability of that decision. Seven.
Speaker 1: Advocate caution, be reasonable and urge your fellow conferees to
Speaker 1: be reasonable and avoid haste which might result in embarrassment
Speaker 1: or difficulties later on. Eight, Be worried about the propriety
Speaker 1: of any decision. Raise the question of whether such action
Speaker 1: as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group,
Speaker 1: or whether it might conflict with the policy of some
Speaker 1: higher echelon. Be managers and supervisors. One demand written orders.
Speaker 1: Two misunderstand orders, ask endless questions, or engage in long
Speaker 1: correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.
Speaker 1: Three do everything possible to delay the delivery of orders.
Speaker 1: Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand,
Speaker 1: don't deliver it until it is completely ready. Four don't
Speaker 1: order any new working materials until your current stocks have
Speaker 1: been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling
Speaker 1: your order will mean a shut down. Five order high
Speaker 1: quality materials which are hard to get. If you don't
Speaker 1: get them, argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will
Speaker 1: mean inferior work. Six in making work assignments. Always sign
Speaker 1: out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs
Speaker 1: are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines. Seven. Insist
Speaker 1: on perfect work in relatively unimportant products. Send back for
Speaker 1: refinishing those which have the least flaw. Approve other defective
Speaker 1: parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye. Eight.
Speaker 1: Make mistakes in routing so that parts and materials will
Speaker 1: be sent to the wrong place in the plant. Nine.
Speaker 1: When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions. Ten
Speaker 1: to lower morale and with it production, Be pleasant to
Speaker 1: inefficient workers, give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers.
Speaker 1: Complain unjustly about their work. Eleven, hold conferences when there
Speaker 1: is more critical work to be done. Twelve. Multiply paperwork
Speaker 1: in plausible ways. Start duplicate files. Thirteen. Multiply the procedures
Speaker 1: and clearances involved in issuing instructions, paychecks, and so on.
Speaker 1: See that three people have to approve everything where one
Speaker 1: would do Fourteen. Apply all regulations to the last letter.
Speaker 1: See office workers. One. Make mistakes and quantities of material
Speaker 1: when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names, use wrong addresses.
Speaker 1: Two prolonged correspondence with government bureaus. Three misfile essential documents. Four.
Speaker 1: In making carbon copies, make one too few so that
Speaker 1: an extra copying job will have to be done. Five
Speaker 1: Tell important callers the bosses busy are talking on another
Speaker 1: time telephone. Six Hold up mail until the next collection. Seven.
Speaker 1: Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope. D employees.
Speaker 1: One work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number
Speaker 1: of movements necessary on your job. Use a light hammer
Speaker 1: instead of a heavy one. Try to make a small
Speaker 1: wrench do when a big one is necessary. Use little
Speaker 1: force where considerable force is needed, and so on. Two.
Speaker 1: Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can
Speaker 1: when changing the material on which you are working, as
Speaker 1: you would on a lay their punch, take needless time
Speaker 1: to do it if you are cutting, shaping, or doing
Speaker 1: other measured work. Measure dimensions twice as often as you
Speaker 1: need to. When you go to the laboratory, Spend a
Speaker 1: longer time there than is necessary forget tools, so that
Speaker 1: you will have to go back after them. Three. Even
Speaker 1: if you understand the language, pretend not to un understand
Speaker 1: instructions in a foreign tongue. Four Pretend that instructions are
Speaker 1: hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more
Speaker 1: than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to
Speaker 1: do your work and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions. Five.
Speaker 1: Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery,
Speaker 1: or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from
Speaker 1: doing your job right. Six. Never pass on your skill
Speaker 1: and experience to a new or less skillful worker. Seven.
Speaker 1: Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill up forms
Speaker 1: allegibly so that they will have to be done over,
Speaker 1: make mistakes or omit requested information and forms. Eight if possible,
Speaker 1: join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems
Speaker 1: to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as
Speaker 1: inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of
Speaker 1: a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more
Speaker 1: than one meeting for each grievance, Bringing up problems which
Speaker 1: are a lowe ardly imaginary, and so on. Nine mis
Speaker 1: route materials. Ten, mix good parts with unusable scrap and
Speaker 1: rejected parts. Twelve General devices for lowering morale and creating confusion.
Speaker 1: A give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned. B report
Speaker 1: imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police. C
Speaker 1: act stupid, D. Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible
Speaker 1: without getting yourself into trouble. E. Misunderstand all sorts of
Speaker 1: regulations concerning such matters as rationing, transportation traffic regulations. F
Speaker 1: complain against ersat's materials. G in public treat axis nationals
Speaker 1: or quizzlings. Coldly H Stop all conversation when Axis nationals
Speaker 1: are quizzlings in are a cafe. I cry and sob
Speaker 1: hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks. J.
Speaker 1: Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any
Speaker 1: way connected with the quizzling authorities. K. Do not cooperate
Speaker 1: in salvage schemes. End of Section two. End of Simple
Speaker 1: Sabotage Field Manual by the United States Office of Strategic Services.
Speaker 1: Recording by James Christopher j X Christopher at yahoo dot com,
Speaker 1: August two thousand nine,