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TIL that during WW2, the CIA published 'Simple Sabotage Field Manual'. It contains instructions for sabotage in occupied territories ranging from being as irritable and quarrelsome as possible, keeping your tools dull, and changing roadsigns, to making an incendiary device out of candle and paper.

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