Is there a massive government conspiracy to sabotage the economy? Are there secret agents working in your office, right now? Click to Play Do Americans Think Snowden Is a Traitor? A new poll reveals what Americans think about the NSA phone record program and leaker Edward Snowden. I don’t want to alarm you, but I fear there might be. It could be the fat guy sitting next to you. The mumbling one with the mustache. Or the thin, high-strung woman down the hall. Make no sudden movements, and edge casually towards the door. Ever since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on Uncle Sam’s secret intelligence apparatus, we’ve all been a bit jumpy about government surveillance. How big is it? How far does it go? An alarming document recently came into my hand which suggests the long, sinister arm of U.S. intelligence reaches far deeper into everyday office-life America than anyone had realized. Snowden. Noam Chomsky. Ron Paul. None of them had a clue. The document is an operating manual for agents and saboteurs produced by U.S. intelligence during the Second World War. It was written by the Office of Strategic Services, the fore-runner of the Central Intelligence Agency. It revealed covert techniques for undermining economic activity – originally, that of Nazi-occupied Europe. When I read it, I suddenly felt a chill running up and down my spine. Based on this document, agents are hard at work everywhere, sabotaging almost everything we do. Why our own government would do this is a matter for speculation. But then, do we ever know the real motives behind a conspiracy? Or maybe it’s a sinister foreign power who is using our own sabotage techniques against us? You don’t believe me? Pulled directly from the manual, here are ten giveaways that your co-worker, boss or employee is a highly-trained government agent trying to undermine your company: 1. They refuse to speed things up by taking sensible short-cuts. “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels,’” the field manual advises the agent. “Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.” 2. They talk and talk and talk when you are trying to get work done. “Make speeches,” the government advises agents. “Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments….Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” 3. They love committee meetings. “When possible, refer all matters to committees, for ‘further study and consideration,’” the agent is advised. “Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.” Then “hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” 4. They nitpick. “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions,” says the field manual. “Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products” and “send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw.” 5. They keep trying to re-open settled decisions. Does your co-worker frequently “refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision?” Spy.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:49:51 +0000
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