Amidst vast amounts of rubbish, social media does have some real gems if you follow the right people and mine your curiosity to deeper levels.
For example, last week I came across the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” issued by the Office of Strategic Services, (forerunner of the CIA), on the 17th January 1944.
“INTRODUCTION. The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.
Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main that require detailed planning and the use of specially trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform.
This paper is primarily concerned with the latter type. Simple sabotage does not require specially prepared tools or equipment; it is executed by an ordinary citizen who may or may not act individually and without the necessity for active connection with an organized group; and carried out in such a way as to involve a minimum danger of injury, detection, and reprisal.”
The manual extends to 32 pages and one can appreciate why it remained classified for over 60 years given the detailed instructions on how to use everyday materials to make explosive devices.
However, what concerns me far more is how it can be used in the workplace.
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