It’s Sabotage!
Via de nieuwsbrief van De Bicker stuitten we op de Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Een handleiding voor dagelijkse sabotage opgesteld in 1944. Geen grootste daden zoals bommen leggen of wegen blokkeren maar kleine dingen om het werk te vertragen, de sfeer te verpesten en mensen te demotiveren.
Wat opvalt is de hardnekkigheid van dit soort gedrag: ruim 70 jaar later zien we nog steeds gedrag dat rechtstreeks afkomstig lijkt uit deze Field Manual. Het boek leest zo bezien - mits 180 graden gedraaid! - als een handleiding Veranderkunde. Ter illustratie enkele tips uit het hoofdstuk: ‘General Interferences with operations and Production’.
- Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
- Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
- Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision
- Advocate ‘caution’. Be ‘reasonable’ and urge your fellow-conferees to be ‘reasonable’ and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
- 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.
In de link de PDF met de hele handleiding: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf
