Simple Sabotage Field Manual

The public record identifies Simple Sabotage Field Manual as a psychological operations matter associated with Office of Strategic Services during 1944. A classified OSS manual that described small, low-risk ways civilians in occupied territories could obstruct organizations, transportation and industry.

One secret wartime manual taught ordinary people how to slow an enemy down by being inefficient, confused and deliberately unhelpful.

A classified OSS manual that described small, low-risk ways civilians in occupied territories could obstruct organizations, transportation and industry.

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