From f9aac634ba39e4cd989a114000491c6161dc1515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Odle Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 19:19:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added through section 5.2 --- ssfm.tex | 224 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 220 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ssfm.tex b/ssfm.tex index 92a9314..174c07c 100644 --- a/ssfm.tex +++ b/ssfm.tex @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ methods of simple sabotage. \section{Personal Motives} -(a) The ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate +\hspace{\parindent}(a) The ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate personal motive for committing simple sabotage. Instead, he must be made to anticipate indirect personal gain, such as might come with enemy evacuation or destruction of the ruling @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ this information directly. \section{Safety Measures} -(a) The amount of activity carried on by the saboteur will be +\hspace{\parindent}(a) The amount of activity carried on by the saboteur will be governed not only by the number of opportunities he sees, but also by the amount of danger he feels. Bad news travels fast, and simple sabotage will be discouraged if too many simple @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ retaliation. Among such suggestions might be the following: \begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} -(1) Use materials which appear to be innocent. A knife or a +\hspace{\parindent}(1) Use materials which appear to be innocent. A knife or a nail file can be carried normally on your person; either is a multi-purpose instrument for creating damage. Matches, pebbles, hair, salt, nails, and dozens of other destructive agents @@ -295,7 +295,9 @@ freedom stations, and cooperating propaganda. \section{Under General Conditions} -(a) Simple sabotage is more than malicious mischief, and it +\begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} + +\hspace{\parindent}(a) Simple sabotage is more than malicious mischief, and it should always consist of acts whose results will be detrimental to the materials and manpower of the enemy. @@ -326,11 +328,45 @@ crops or food products. military objects, he should give these preference above all others. +\end{adjustwidth} + \section{Prior to a Military Offensive} +During periods which are quiescent in a military sense, such +emphasis as can be given to simple sabotage might well center +on industrial production, to lessen the flow of materials and +equipment to the enemy. Slashing a rubber tire on an Army +truck may be an act of value; spoiling a batch of rubber in the +production plant is an act of still more value. + \section{During a Military Offensive} +\hspace{\parindent}(a) Most significant sabotage for an area which is, or is soon +destined to be, a theater of combat operations is that whose +effects will be direct and immediate. Even if the effects are +relatively minor and localized, this type of sabotage is to be +preferred to activities whose effects, while widespread, are +indirect and delayed. +\begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} + +\hspace{\parindent}(1) The saboteur should be encouraged to attack +transportation facilities of all kinds. +Among such facilities are roads, railroads, auto mobiles, +trucks, motor-cycles, bicycles, trains, and trams. + +(2) Any communications facilities which can be used by the +authorities to transmit instructions or morale material should +be the objects of simple sabotage. These include telephone, +telegraph and power systems, radio, newspapers, placards, and +public notices. + +(3) Critical materials, valuable in themselves or necessary to +the efficient functioning of transportation and communication, +also should become targets for the citizen-saboteur. These may +include oil, gasoline, tires, food, and water. + +\end{adjustwidth} \chapter{Specific Suggestions for Simple Sabotage} @@ -347,8 +383,188 @@ elaborated and expanded. \section{Buildings} +Warehouses, barracks, offices, hotels, and factory buildings +are outstanding targets for simple sabotage. They are extremely +susceptible to damage, especially by fire; they offer +opportunities to such untrained people as janitors, charwomen, +and casual visitors; and, when damaged, they present a +relatively large handicap to the enemy. + +(a) Fires can be started wherever there is an accumulation of +inflammable material. Warehouses are obviously the most +promising targets but incendiary sabotage need not be confined +to them alone. + +\begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} + +(1) Whenever possible, arrange to have the fire start after you +have gone away. Use a candle and paper, combination, setting +it as close as possible to the inflammable material you want to +burn: From a sheet of paper, tear a strip three or four +centimeters wide and wrap it around the base of the candle two +or three times. Twist more sheets of paper into loose ropes and +place them around the base of the candle. When the candle +flame reaches the encircling strip, it will be ignited and in turn +will ignite the surrounding paper. The size, heat, and duration +of the resulting flame will depend on how much paper you use +and how much of it you can cramp in a small space. + +(2) With a flame of this kind, do not attempt to ignite any but +rather inflammable materials, such as cotton sacking. To light +more resistant materials, use a candle plus tightly rolled or +twisted paper which has been soaked in gasoline. To create a +briefer but even hotter flame, put celluloid such as you might +find in an old comb, into a nest of plain or saturated paper +which is to be fired by a candle. + +(3) To make another type of simple fuse, soak one end of a +piece of string in grease. Rub a generous pinch of gunpowder +over the inch of string where greasy string meets clean string. +Then ignite the clean end of the string. It will burn slowly +without a flame (in much the same way that a cigarette burns) +until it reaches the grease and gunpowder; it will then flare up +suddenly. The grease-treated string will then burn with a flame. +The same effect may be achieved by using matches instead of +the grease and gunpowder. Run the string over the match +heads, taking care that the string is not pressed or knotted. +They too will produce a sudden flame. The advantage of this +type of fuse is that string burns at a set speed. You can time +your fire by the length and thickness of the string you chose. + +(4) Use a fuse such as; the ones suggested above to start a +fire in an office after hours. The destruction of records and +other types of documents would be a serious handicap to the +enemy. + +(5) In basements where waste is kept, janitors should +accumulate oily and greasy waste. Such waste sometimes +ignites spontaneously, but it can easily be lit with a cigarette or +match. If you are a janitor on night duty, you can be the first to +report the fire, but don’t report it too soon. + +(6) A clean factory is not susceptible to fire, but a dirty one is. +Workers should be careless with refuse and janitors should be +inefficient in cleaning. If enough dirt and trash can be +accumulated an otherwise fireproof building will become +inflammable. + +(7) Where illuminating gas is used in a room which is vacant +at night, shut the windows tightly, turn on the gas, and leave a +candle burning in the room, closing the door tightly behind +you. After a time, the gas will explode, and a fire may or may +not follow. + +\end{adjustwidth} + +(b)Water and Miscellaneous + +\begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} + +\hspace{\parindent}(1) Ruin warehouse stock by setting the automatic sprinkler +system to work. You can do this by tapping the sprinkler heads +sharply with a hammer or by holding a match under them. + +(2) Forget to provide paper in toilets; put tightly rolled paper, +hair, and other obstructions in the W. C. Saturate a sponge with +a thick starch or sugar solution. Squeeze it tightly into a ball, +wrap it with string, and dry. Remove the string when fully +dried. The sponge will be in the form of a tight hard ball. Flush +down a W. C. or otherwise introduce into a sewer line. The sponge +will gradually expand to its normal size and plug the sewage +system. + +(3) Put a coin beneath a bulb in a public building during the +daytime, so that fuses will blow out when lights are turned on +at night. The fuses themselves may be rendered ineffective by +putting a coin behind them or loading them with heavy wire. +Then a short-circuit may either start a fire, damage +transformers, or blow out a central fuse which will interrupt +distribution of electricity to a large area. + +(4) Jam paper, bits of wood, hairpins, and anything else that +will fit, into the locks of all unguarded entrances to public +buildings. + +\end{adjustwidth} + \section{Industrial Production: Manufacturing} +\hspace{\parindent}Tools + +\begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} + +(1) Let cutting tools grow dull. They will be inefficient, will +slow down production, and may damage the materials and +parts you use them on. + +(2) Leave saws slightly twisted when you are not using them. +After a while, they will break when used. + +(3) Using a very rapid stroke will wear out a file before its +time. So will dragging a file in slow strokes under heavy +pressure. Exert pressure on the backward stroke as well as the +forward stroke. + +(4) Clean files by knocking them against the vise or the +workpiece; they are easily broken this way. + +(5) Bits and drills will snap under heavy pressure. + +(6) You can put a press punch out of order by putting in it +more material than it is adjusted for — two blanks instead of +one, for example. +(7) Power-driven tools like pneumatic drills, riveters, and so +on, are never efficient when dirty. Lubrication points and +electric contacts can easily be fouled by normal accumulations +of dirt or the insertion of foreign matter. + +\end{adjustwidth} + +\hspace{\parindent}(b) Oil and lubrication systems are not only vulnerable to +easy sabotage, but are critical in every machine with moving +parts. Sabotage of oil and lubrication will slow production or +stop work entirely at strategic points in industrial processes. + +\begin{adjustwidth}{2em}{2em} + +\hspace{\parindent}(1) Put metal dust or filings, fine sand, ground glass, emery +dust (get it by pounding up an emery knife sharpener) and +similar hard, gritty substances directly into lubrication +systems. They will scour smooth surfaces, ruining pistons, +cylinder walls, shafts, and bearings. They will overheat and +stop motors which will need overhauling, new parts, and +extensive repairs. Such materials, if they are used, should be +introduced into lubrication systems past any filters which +otherwise would strain them out. + +(2) You can cause wear on any machine by uncovering a filter +system, poking a pencil or any other sharp object through the +filter mesh, then covering it up again. Or, if you can dispose of +it quickly, simply remove the filter. + +(3) If you cannot get at the lubrication system or filter +directly, you may be able to lessen the effectiveness of oil by +diluting it in storage. In this case, almost any liquid will do +which will thin the oil. A small amount of sulphuric acid, +varnish, water-glass, or linseed oil will be especially effective. + +(4) Using a thin oil where a heavy oil is prescribed will break +down a machine or heat up a moving shaft so that it will +“freeze” and stop. + +(5) Put any clogging substance into lubrication systems or, if +it will float, into stored oil. Twisted combings of human hair, +pieces of string, dead insects, and many other common objects +will be effective in stopping or hindering the flow of oil through +feed lines and filters. + +(6) Under some circumstances, you may be able to destroy +oil outright rather than interfere with its effectiveness, by +removing stop-plugs from lubricating systems or by puncturing +the drums and cans in which it is stored. + +\end{adjustwidth} + \section{Production: Metals} \section{Production: Mining and Mineral Extraction}