Simple Sabotage Field Manual

{{Short description|Formerly classified document (1944)}}

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The Simple Sabotage Field Manual is a document written by the Office of Strategic Services in 1944. The manual was declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2008.{{Cite web |last=Koebler |first=Jason |date=2025-01-29 |title=Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral |url=https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250131213506/https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/ |archive-date=31 Jan 2025 |access-date=2025-01-30 |website=404 Media |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=What can the 1944 OSS manual teach us before we all return to sabotage the office? |url=https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/01/something_for_the_weekend_/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250116080102/https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/01/something_for_the_weekend_/ |archive-date=2025-01-16 |access-date=2025-01-30 |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Giaimo |first=Cara |date=2015-12-08 |title=A Guide for Everyday Saboteurs |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/12/the-simple-sabotage-field-manual-the-early-spy-manual-from-the-office-of-strategic-services-that-turned-bad-middle-management-into-an-espionage-tactic.html |access-date=2025-01-30 |work=Slate |language=en-US |issn=1091-2339}}

The manual was distributed to OSS officers in foreign countries in order to help them train "citizen-saboteurs" in German-occupied Europe.{{cite news |title=Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) |url=https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-cias-simple-sabotage-field-manual.html |work=Open Culture |date=20 November 2024}}