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Anarchist Cookbook=——== by William Powell with a prefatory note on Anarchism Today by P.M. Bergman BARRICADE BOOKS, INC. Published by Barricade Books Ine. 150 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Copyright © 1971 by Lyle Swart In. Copyright © assigned 1989 to Barricade Books: Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-127797 All rights reserved. No part of this book may he reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, by any means, including mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with @ review writen for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast Printed in the United States of America. Forty-second Printing The Anarchist Cookbook Apprefatory note on Anarchism today Foreword ao Amphetamines Amyl Nitrate Cough Syrup Glue Nalline Cocaine Heroin Nutmeg Paregoric Peanuts Hydrangea leaves Chapter Two: ELECTRONICS, SABOTAGE, AND SURVEILLANCE Electronic bugging devices Microphones Bumper beepers Voice-activated tape recorders Electronic bug detection Electronic jamming Electronic seramblers ‘Mail order and retail electronics outlets Broadcasting free radio Telephone and communications sabotage Other forms of sabotage 29 3 31 31 50 53 58 55 56 56 58 58 58 58 58 58 38 39 or 63 65 68 68 0 0 0 n 74 Contents Chapter Three: NATURAL, NONLETHAL, AND LETHAL WEAPONS Natural weapons Hand-to-hand combat Application of hand weapons Hand weapons Knives Impromptu weapons Brass knuckles and clubs Cattle prod Garrote Guerilla Training Pistols and revolvers. Holsters Rifles Semi-automatic and automatic weapons Shotguns Converting a shotgun into a grenade launcher Silencers How to build a silencer fora pistot How to build a silencer fora submachine gun Bows and arrows Chemicals and gases How to make tear gas in your basement. Defense and medical treatment for gases Page B 9 81 81 81 83 8s 85 85 87 89 92 93 9s 98 98 98 100 103 103 104 108 105 (Chapter Four: EXPLOSIVES AND BOOBY TRAPS 111 How to make nitroglycerin How to make mereury fulminate How to make blasting gelatin Formulas for the straight dynamite series How to make chloride of azode Formulas for ammonium nitrate compounds Formulas for gelatin dynamites How to make TNT THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK y 113 14 ua 4 us 116 nT 1B. / CONTENTS How to make teuryl How to make picric acid Formulas for black powder How to make smokeless powder How to make nitrogen tri-iodide Formulas for different-colered smoke screens Household substitutes Safety precautions Basie formulas for demolitions use ‘Some important principles Tamping Placement of charges Bridge destruction Deronators. Release of pressure detonators, Time delay devices Road trap. Walk trap Page ug. ng 120 121 121 121 122 122 125 125 128 19 130 132 135 135 148 148. Bangalore torpedo Molotov Cocktail Homemade hand grenade How to make an anti-personnel greasde Book trap Door-handle traps Loose floorboard trap Gate trap Chimney trap Lamp trap Car trap Pipe trap Pen trap Whistle trap and other handy devices Cacodyal Postscript Bibliography Figure Page 1, Methods for growing marihuana 34 2. A mature marihuana plant 35 3. Hooksh 38 4, Peyote 46 5. A separatory funnel! a7 6, Stropharia cubensis and Psilocybe mexicana 50 7, Primary filtering of homemade DMT 54 8. Heating DMT solution in water bath, 54 9. Final eallection of DMT 55 10, Table of weights 55 11, Eavesdropper 61 12, The byphone e 13, The carbon button 66 14, Crystal Microphone 66 15. Dynamic Microphone or 16, Buttonhole mike, subminiature mike, suction-cup wall listener, and the parabolic reflector or 17, The snake 67 18, The electronic stethoscope 68 19, Keyhole for typical pre-1964 Chevie 16 20. The correct grip for holding a knife 81 21. Common hatpin 83 22, Beer-cam hand weapon a4 23, Marine Corps combat knife 84 24. Air Force survival kit 84 25, Throwing knife 84 26, Brass knuckles 85 27. Kelly Come-Along 85 28. Sap gloves 85 29, Different types of billes and blackjacks 86 30. Mob-controt stlck 85 31, Garrote 87 32, Sabotage against moving vehicles 88 33. Browning high-power automatic pistol 89 34, Smith & Wesson 9-mm, automatic pistol 59 35. Colt Commander automatic pistol 89 36, Smith & Wesson combat masterpiece revolver 90 31. Charter Arms undercover .38 special 90 38, Colt offical police revolver 90 39, Llama Model VIII automatic pistol 90, Illustrations Figure 40. al. 42, 43, 44 4s. 46. 47. 48, 49. 50. SI. 52. 33, 34, 35. 36. 37. 3. Universal 1000 auto-loading car Wi . Ruger 44 magnum carbine Boxer primer Span holster Spring holster Spring shouldler holster Open-end quick-draw holster Browning high-power rifle H&R Model 301 ultra bolt-action carbine H&R Model 330 bolt-action rifle ‘Remington bolt-action Model 788 ‘Martin 62 Levermatic Rite Universal Enforcer automatic carbine Armalite Rr-180 carbine Browning high-power automatic rifle Eagle “Apache” carbine Harrington and Richardson 360 ultra-automatic J&R 68 semi-automatic carbine Remington 742 Woodmaster Plainfield Machine Co. carbine chester 100 auto-loading earbine Converting a shotgua into a grenade launcher Silencet for pistol Thompson submachine gun with silencer Cross-section view of Thompson silencer M-3 submachine gun with silencer Crossbow Equipment set up for preparing tear gas Darts for rapid injection Police projectiles ‘The erared anarchist Opening explosives Nonelectrical blasting cap - Safety fuse Crimpers Electrical blasting cap 5. Priming dynamite electrically . Lacing dynamite Lacing plastique ‘Tamping erater charges THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK 4 mt 126 126 8 —/ ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 80. Using explosives to cut through materials 81. Railroad Sabotage 82. Type of placement and tamping to destroy large buildings 83. Stringer bridge 84, Slab bridge 85, T-beam bridge 86. Concrete cantilever bridge 87. Truss bridge 8. Suspension bridge 89. Tension-release detonator 90. Military grenade 91. Putl-trigger electric detonator 92. Pressure-trigger device under driver's seat 93. Pressure-plate detonator 94. Release of pressure detonator 95. Tension-release detonator Page 129 129 129 130 130 131 131 132 132 133, 134 136 135, 137 138 39 Figure 96. 97, 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103, 104. 105. 106. 107, 108. 109. 110. ul. Nipple time bomb Incendiary time bomb Magnifying-glass bomb Alarm-clock time bomb Road trap Walk trap Bangalore torpedo Molotov Cocktail Homemade grenade Book trap Door-handle traps Loose floorboard trap Pressure-release gate trap Pipe traps Ball-point pen trap Whistle trap A prefatory note on Anarchism today by P.M. Bergman This is a brutal book—sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel However, it is timely and well-written, even witty. Profes- sionally and painstakingly, all possibe Informative instrue~ tions for individual actions of destruction having a pre- sumably social effect are detailed here. There is no political merit in publishing this book; itis not a call to action. For the real Hippy and Yippy, esp

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