The Simple Sabotage Field Manual was issued in 1944 by the United States Office of Strategic Services, the wartime intelligence agency that preceded the CIA. Declassified decades later, it instructed ordinary citizens in occupied countries on how to obstruct the Axis war effort through small, deniable acts of disruption that would be hard to trace back to any individual saboteur.
Its most enduring sections describe how to cripple an organization from inside through bad management: insist on doing everything through channels, give long speeches, refer matters to committees, and quibble over precise wordings. Brief, dryly practical, and unexpectedly funny, the manual has found a second life as a satirical mirror of modern bureaucracy. This free EPUB download preserves the complete declassified text.