The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-09

trated the outer layer of the metal armor protecting the cable core. Yet this was enough to cause Q short circuit which put the ship out Of commission.
 Another extremely simple case was the throwing of 8 handful of BIB shot in the crankcase of an afr plane motor. It could have caused complete wreckage.
 Arson, destruction of property by fire and by bombing are the time honored tricks, of the Saboteur, Fire is so easy to start-a cigarette butt thrown in an oil-soaked rag on an oil soaked floor = and so hard to stop.
 GUARDS LEARN
 TO HANDLE BOMBS
 Internal machines to start fires as well as to cause explosions by delayed action have been increased in efficiency, and the training of how to handle bombs Is one of the lessons which police and industrial plant guards must learn. There is no formula for the handling of ex- plosiveS of unknown character. Many people have been killed trying to find out, for most bombs are the creations of crackpotS whose inten- tions are unknown and whose in. ventions unusually 90 of when least expected.
 Dunking the bomb in g barrel of light motor oil is now considered good technique. If anyone has the cold nerve to do the transferring Next to thst, recommended proce- dure now is to shut off all power, steam and water lines, surround the bomb with sandbagS placed SO as to control the direction of force of the explosion, then destroy the bomb by rifle fire, or by setting fire to it.
 All bombs divide roughly into three classiflcations, the clock mechanis1ns, the trigger release as the package is opened, and the chemical action device. This last was the favorite in World War l days, when incendiary pencils, their timing controlled by chemical ac- tion. were widely used.
 SPYING NOW IS
 HIGHLY ORGANIZED
 Closely related to the work of the Saboteur is, of course, the work of the spy, about whose work there has been colossal hokus written and spoken. Espionage today as the FBI observes 1t. is not the job of one agent, working alone, getting all his own information and then van- ishing mygteriously into the night.
 On the contrary, espionage is more apt to be the work of an ore ganizer who collects his information from any number of sources. put- ting 1t all together to make the completed report that his govern ment must have.
 Much Of this information may be obtained by perfectly legitimate means Bits Of information are re- vealed through routine business dealing between foreign sales agents and domestic manufacturing con- cerns. ImpOrt-export associations, scientific organizations and business mems groups can reveal just as much tf not more information than the lnfiltratlon of woFkmen into a plant to spy on production. INFORMATION
 Is OFTEN BOUGHT
 Better, too, than the obtaining of information directly is the puFchas. ing Of the information desired from regular esnpl0yes. or obtaining 1t by pressure and threat with reference 70 relatives or friends Of an ems pl0ye who reside in q foreign c0un- try. Direct hire Of technical exs pefte % enter the service Of Q fore elsn government as an adviser has even been FeseFted to successfully.
 The chesks against espionage ere two; the plugging up og leaks through which information mleht dflbble. and the work Of eotlnfers efpienmge-liae setting el spies ka watch the spies
 That is . game that two play,