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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by krapp on Saturday December 18, 2021 @02:41PM (#29607834)
This and the "Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies[0,1]," obviously a troll post from 4chan or somewhere similar given the language, which basically takes the normal activity of trolls and internet argument and tries to convince the reader that it's all the work of government agents.

Great way to stir up paranoia on a forum where people tend not to be able to grok humor, but also tend to believe in conspiracy theories.

[0]https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4277278

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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by mcguire on Saturday December 18, 2021 @05:48PM (#29609386)
https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=750070
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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by krapp on Saturday December 18, 2021 @06:00PM (#29609505)
Why did you repost the document that is already the subject of this entire thread?
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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by mcguire on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:22AM (#29611591)
I posted the link that is from the Homeland Security Digital Library.

It's pretty much not a troll post from 4chan.

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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by krapp on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:18AM (#29612762)
It's also not the document I was talking about. The OSS wasn't discussing forum sliding or "anger trolling" in the 1940s.
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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by mcguire on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:13PM (#29621510)
So "this" doesn't refer to the subject of this article?
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Re:Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) by JasonFruit on Saturday December 18, 2021 @05:56PM (#29609472)
But then every once in a while you run across someone who makes you say, "Hmm."
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