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OSS Sabotage Manual

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My mate Brian uncovered this copy of the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Adobe/PDF, 2.2MB) on the Web. It's a guide to doing low level sabotage in occupied Europe during World War II and looking at the scan of the cover it does look genuine.

OSS Sabotage Manual cover

It's a fascinating document in itself but page 28 made me smile. I think some people I've worked with over the years, both professionally and elsewhere, have read this manual already and taken its lessons to heart.

OSS Sabotage Manual page 23

I did try to OCR it but my OCR software wouldn't play. I may try again later as it would be good to put it online in a searchable format.

Written 19/06/10

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