I believe you are looking for the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, the original of which is still on the CIA's website!
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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Wasn't that written by the CIA? Maybe that'll help you narrow it down. I think it's some "CIA manual on..." document.
Are you thinking of Simple Sabotage?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual
This site is fun and more modern:
SIMPLE SABOTAGE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
I found this because I kept looking :
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/revoluciana-facing-fascism-sabotage
I was hoping for a memey thing I saw floating around lemmy .
Thanks for the advice
Yeah you are correct. That was the manual for internal sabotage
Didn't work in Germany.
I seem to recall the fascists losing in Germany.
This sort of sabotage is for resisting a tyrannical government where resisting more openly means death. Its goal is to hasten a tyranny's collapse, not prevent its formation.
If you want to prevent a tyranny from consolidating its power, what you're looking for is revolution. Use your freedom of movement to organize into local militias/guerillas and make plans to take or destroy nearby key infrastructure. Optionally make contact with other cells to track their progress and coordinate. Then at either some broadly communicated time or at a watershed moment, execute your plans. If you succeed at your objectives, help ones that failed.