The 1944 OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Back during WWII the OSS set both occupied Europe and Asia ablaze behind enemy lines. The CIA, its successor in 1947, declassified the agencies 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual- Strategic Services (Provisional) guide and it is available online to read as a historical reference.
Its really interesting reading.
The part about being an ineffective manager on pgs 29-30 struck me very funny and I now beleive that many of my former bosses were prviy to ths OSS’s manual:
“Misunderstand” orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can..Do everything possible to delay -the delivery of orders. Even though parts of an order may be ready beforehand, don’t deliver it until it is completely ready. (1) Don’t order new working’ materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown. Order high-quality materials which are hard to get. If you don’t get them argue about it. Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work. In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines…
The rest is just good stuff
Better quality Backup over at Gutenberg here
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