{"id":2822,"date":"2015-11-01T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T22:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/The-Simple-Sabotage-Field-Manual-put-out-by-the-OSS-the-CIAs-predecessor-in-1944-is-a-wonderful-source-of"},"modified":"2015-11-01T22:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T22:52:06","slug":"the-simple-sabotage-field-manual-put-out-by-the-oss-the-cias-predecessor-in-1944-is-a-wonderful-source-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/11\/01\/the-simple-sabotage-field-manual-put-out-by-the-oss-the-cias-predecessor-in-1944-is-a-wonderful-source-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Simple Sabotage Field Manual,&#8221; put out by the OSS (the CIA&#8217;s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-XwQ8jcC1Utc\/VjaQm4GuQ_I\/AAAAAAAA8KY\/JBHROJ_Ds5w\/s0\/CSvwG-MXIAA5rBT.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Simple Sabotage Field Manual,&#8221; put out by the OSS (the CIA&#8217;s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of tips and techniques for anti-management. What&#8217;s particularly brilliant is that revealing these methods can be even more destructive than concealing them: consider what happens when every time someone does something stupid and inefficient, the response is for people to wonder if that person is actually a saboteur. (The answer, by the way, is &#8220;The Joys of Stalin,&#8221; and is why Russia almost lost WWII: he had spent the 1930&#8217;s purging everyone that he didn&#8217;t trust, which is to say, basically everyone who knew anything)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you&#8217;re willing to accept that the people around you might just be idiots, and not actively planning your overthrow, then the pamphlet is a short and surprisingly amusing read. You can see the whole thing at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/featured-story-archive\/2012-featured-story-archive\/simple-sabotage.html\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/news-information\/featured-story-archive\/2012-featured-story-archive\/simple-sabotage.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>h\/t Neha Narula\u00a0<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The &#8220;Simple Sabotage Field Manual,&#8221; put out by the OSS (the CIA&#8217;s predecessor) in 1944, is a wonderful source of&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/11\/01\/the-simple-sabotage-field-manual-put-out-by-the-oss-the-cias-predecessor-in-1944-is-a-wonderful-source-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}