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The curse of the badly run meeting
An update to a wartime-sabotage manual
In January 1944 the Office of Strategic Services, an American wartime intelligence agency, issued a short document. The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” offered advice on how ordinary citizens in occupied Europe could disrupt the German war machine.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Called to disorder”
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