Page 28, Simple Sabotage Field Manual (US Office of Strategic Services, Jan 1944)
(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production
(a) Organizations and Conferences
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never per
mit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(2) Make "speeches" Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few
appropriate "patriotic"-comments.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible - never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution." Be unreasonable and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision - raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
Reminds me of a few people I've worked with.
Link to the manual: [link]https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf[/link]
Thanks to my friend Adrain who pointed me to this.
Excellent, it sounds like a manual for behaviour in any large organisation.
Cheers
Martin
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" Helmuth von Moltke
Toys: AGM MP40, Cyma M1A1, TM M14/G43/SVT40, TM VSR/K98, SnS No. 4, ASG Sten, Ppsh.
Arnhem3,Gumrak,Campoleone
just like my local council ............... Wankers
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Sounds like the government (all levels), the management of several large companies i've worked for (state and non-state), not to mention a few charities.
To the tune of "Mademoiselle from Armentières"
Napoleons army ran away, As you do
The guard stood firm for Frances Pride, As you do
They said the guard will stand and die
But we heard what their Colonel cried
It wasn't pretty I tell you.
Resistance is fertile
Could have come out of a BT management training guide.
Just went looking for that page on the web and found this site.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/pa ... images.pdf
Love this bit
(3)
Anyone can break up a showing of anenemy propaganda film 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.
I just don't know where I would get a bag of moths from at short notice, I normally only carry 3 in my wallet 
(4) Jam paper, bits of wood, hairpins, and anything else that will fit, into the locks of all unguarded entrances to public buildings.
Just like an exchange I was working in last month where the building facilities group had put 4 padlocks 2 dead bolts and a steel bar across a pair of loading bay doors. If that was not enough they also had an alarm and for good measure had bust the main key off in the lock.
The things they do to make engineers have it hard, anyway we still got them open 
More on this here seems it's all been said.
http://www.volokh.com/2010/06/01/sabota ... n-the-war/
Free speech is expensive these days!
