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A comment on The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015).

Re:The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015) by imjustsaying on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:30PM (#12256749)
>Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless, Kafkaesque Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)

Looks like they took advantage of the theory that "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grey%27s%20La...

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Re:The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015) by clifanatic on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @01:33PM (#12263441)
The corollary being: if your boss doesn't understand what you do, he's always going to assume you're deliberately sabotaging him. And for most of us, our boss doesn't understand what we do.
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