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Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]
- endymi0n 9y agoLooks like Putin's winning strategy was an American export. How ironic indeed.
- flyinglizard 9y agoShould have included open space offices.
- quantumhobbit 9y ago"Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can." Should cover open offices
- uncle_d 9y agoSounds like standard .gov operating procedure: «When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.»
- aluhut 9y agoOr standard office procedures: > Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done. > To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. And there is also the standard "I want to keep my job move": > Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.
- QAPereo 9y agoA committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Barnett Cocks
- otp124 9y agoI had a thought that this might have been the intelligence community taking a humorous jab at the US government, and also happened to be true. But have no information on if committees were better or worse at that point in history.
- marcosdumay 9y agoI am still holding the opinion that this piece was sarcastic until I get evidence to the contrary. It is way more plausible than the CIA creating something that effective.
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- 0xbear 9y agoThat whole chapter reads like SOP of any large corporation in the US today.
- throwaway67823 9y agoSo the Anarchist Cookbook is terrorist literature [1], but this guide is fine? > To create a briefer but even hotter flame, put celluloid such as you might find in an old comb, into a nest of plain or saturated paper which is to be fired by a candle. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030096.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7030096.stm
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- na85 9y ago>So the Anarchist Cookbook is terrorist literature [1], but this guide is fine? If you are just now discovering that the state holds itself to a different standard than its citizens, you must have been living under a rock.
- kpil 9y agoThe whole idea with the (modern, democratic) state is that certain task are delegated and exclusive to the state. Revenge and killing people is for instance delegated to the judicial system, the police, and the military. Without it we would be back to tribal wars.
- tptacek 9y agoThis is an article about CIA literature. The Anarchist Cookbook is not illegal in the US.
- levelist_com 9y agoCorrect me if im wrong but wasnt the anarchist cookbook mostly cherry picked from military field manuals found in a public library? If so, kind of hard to make the claim that its terrorist literature.
- gexla 9y ago* Invent social media * Every Friday is mariachi band day * Cater lunch, spike the food with laxatives
- jlebrech 9y agoidentity politics?
- sverige 9y agoI just realized that I've worked with quite a few CIA plants, especially in the insurance industry.
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- cat199 9y agoAs clear evidence as I've ever seen that the modern corporate state is truly a plot. :D
- throwaway398983 9y agoSounds like India to me.
- cJ0th 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12253276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=833443 ^ previous discussions
- PappaPatat 9y agoClick the "past" link above yields many more and saves you the trouble of searching and C&Ping these links. You're welcome.
- cJ0th 9y agoWoah ... How could I have missed that?! Thanks
- EGreg 9y agoThis is also the manual for running a regular Dilbert type corporation :)
- kiliantics 9y agoThere's another great manual they dropped over Nicaragua to instruct people on how to take down the state. Comes with helpful illustrations and everything! http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_dreams/2006/06/cia_sabotage_ma.html http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_dreams/2006/06/cia_sabo...
- yellowapple 9y agoDamn, that is some devious stuff in there. Clogging toilets with sponges is a new level of hostile creativity.
- BatFastard 9y agoShould be called "How to be an jerk".
- leggomylibro 9y agoThis is hilarious. I like how they slowly go from 'be lazy' to 'outright violence.' Why don't we make these for our modern conflicts? North Korea, the sprawling Middle East stuff, those crazy Russians around Georgia/Ukraine... "Call in sick and throw tools in the sewers. Threaten your boss by telephone and cut up the upholstery of vehicles. Put nails in battery cells. Paint seditious slogans. Burn down a warehouse."
- BatFastard 9y agoWhy publish this at all? It adds no value to society.
- leggomylibro 9y agoIt's probably just another document that fell out of classification and was published in accordance with blanket sunshine laws. A) This sort of thing is probably not a great handbook in the first place; it looks like a committee just decided to compile a bunch of general knowledge about sabotage in a big bullet-point list. B) Information from the 1940s is probably not terribly relevant today. It ignores modern safety systems, engineering principles, surveillance technologies, and most kinds of telecommunications. Any prospective saboteur trying to put this 'manual' to practical use will probably get caught or maybe electrocuted in short order.
- shubb 9y agoIn a democracy, it is important for normal people to understand what our governments have done in the past, in order to know what they may be doing today. Today, Venezuela is on fire. The opposition claim this is due to government ineptitude, and the government, at times, claims it is due to foreign interference. If this sort of thing were going on, even if we agreed with it, our governments could not tell us that they were doing these things, or they would be less effective. So we must study history to understand what may be contributing to events around the world. It might help us decide how to vote. Though as demonstrated in the most recent US election, nothing really changes, just the wall paper.
- BatFastard 9y agoI agree its important to know what the government has done in the past. What I disagree with is making all of that available to anyone with access to the internet. I just imagine 11 year old boys trying this stuff out on the school. That is what you learned from the last election? What I learned is that people can be fooled very easily. And that they can not differentiate between a qualified candidate and a pompous narcissist. But that is just my opinion.
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