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OSS (pre-CIA) Simple Sabotage Field Manual
- dustingetz 17y agois this for real?
- joe_bleau 17y agoThe PDF certainly seems authentic to me. The language and technology seems correct for the period. I was surprised that some of the units were mixed standard/metric, such as "75-100 grams for each 10 gallons of gasoline".
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- laut 17y agoYou meant mix of standard and imperial units? :)
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- varjag 17y agoWow, so Dilbert is really about CIA conspiracy!
- adatta02 17y ago(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion (e) Act stupid. -clearly why we won the war
- jacquesm 17y agoWhich one and who is we ?
- d_c 17y agoCould be partly the little bureaucrats guide to heaven.
- DXL 17y agoFor people like me, who get a Firefox security error message, try the links without the s in https: http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabota...
- joe_the_user 17y agoLol... 39a) All web necessary pages must established on secure servers with custom certs not recognized by any browser...
- celoyd 17y agoMy 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. 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.
- ngs 17y agoYou've been voted up for a post that is ambiguous in its asertion. What did your grandmother do? How old was she at the time?
- celoyd 17y agoI'm not sure what's ambiguous. Certainly I'm generalizing ("anyone") from an anecdote; I'm not trying to make a rock-solid historical claim. I think most of her factory work was making shells. She was born in 1921; this would presumably been in 1943-45 or so.
- tomjen2 17y agoFirst I am sorry to hear about your grandmother. Second, how far you take the instructions in the booklet obviously depends on the work you do, and the higher up you are, the easier it is to screw up something without being found out.
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- ngs 17y agoIf 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.
- hughprime 17y agoIf 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?
- onreact-com 17y agoIn Nazi Germany everybody, like in other fascists dictatorships, was suspicious anyways.
- Erf 17y agoThis, incidentally, reads like a business how-not-to.
- joe_the_user 17y agoBut also like a "how it is really done..."
- uuilly 17y agoClearly you have never worked for a big company :)
- jhancock 17y agoTo me it reads like the current operating guide for just about every politician I've ever met ;)
- javery 17y agoI think this is the playbook that the GOP in congress is playing by.
- tlrobinson 17y agoIt's comical how much this sounds like some peoples' workplaces.
- onreact-com 17y ago"svn.cacert.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted."
- abalashov 17y agoInsist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to, expedite decisions. Ahahaha. Post-war and enduringly postmillenial corporate America, anyone?
- moeffju 17y agoa.k.a "Politics & Economics - The Missing Manual" I'll be keeping this as a HOW-NOT-TO reference.
- shin_lao 17y agoAt first I thought this was the training manual of French Administration personal...