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I hold in my hands right now a declassified document from World War II.

It's called the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

And this manual was created by the OSS, which was a precursor to the CIA.

It says at the beginning, quote, the contents of this manual should be carefully controlled

and should not be allowed to come into unauthorized hands.

This is a serious manual about how to prank the Nazis.

Charles Pink is president of the OSS Society.

So Charles, can you just basically explain what this thing is?

Well, it's an instruction manual for saboteurs.

And you have to remember that in World War II, you know, when the Nazis occupied all these countries in Europe,

but they brought lots of Germans with them to run everything, you know, all the stuff

that, you know, businesses and factories, you know, they had to rely on the native

populations whose countries they occupied and a lot of they had to rely on the native populations

whose countries they occupied and a lot of them you know

probably's reason didn't look very favorably upon them so it actually gave the

allies uh... a great opportunity to cause problems for them by encouraging people to screw things up.

So what are a few of the ways that the OSS was instructing people to sabotage things?

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