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Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual, pp. 26-27
In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, authored a remarkable document: the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a 40-page list of instructions for “simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform.” Intended for distribution among the population in German-occupied European countries during the late stages of World War II, this secret document – declassified and publicly available since 2008 – offered encouragement for covert ground-level acts of disruption that any citizen could carry out…
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Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual, pp. 26-27
In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, authored a remarkable document: the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, a 40-page list of instructions for “simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform.” Intended for distribution among the population in German-occupied European countries during the late stages of World War II, this secret document – declassified and publicly available since 2008 – offered encouragement for covert ground-level acts of disruption that any citizen could carry out…
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