You got trapped, he used the manual to make you waste your time on irrelevant stuff, and mine now :D

I had read parts of the manual years ago, and I concede quickly enough got bored. All we need to sabotage a system is a little bit of imagination coupled with paranoia to sustain damage long term.

> but most people have no idea what OSS is. the CIA is the natural successor of OSS.

That still doesn't make the headline correct, though. CIA simply didn't exist in WW2.