Simple Sabotage Field ManualUnited States. Office of Strategic Services
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
United States. Office of Strategic Services
Sabotage
(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.
(b) _Water and miscellaneous_
(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.
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