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TheAnarchistCookbookby William Powellwith a prefatory note onAnarchism Today byP.M. BergmanBARRICADE BOOKS,INC.
Published by Barricade Books Inc.150 Fifth AvenueYork, NY 1001NewCopyright 1971 by Lyle Stuart Inc.Copyright assigned 1989 to Barricade Books; Inc.Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-127797All rights reserved.No part of this book may be 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 permissionof the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages inconnection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.Printed in the United States of America.Forty-second Printing
TheAnarchistCookbook
ContentsPageHUA prefatory note on Anarchism today9NATURAL, NONLETHAL,Chapter Three:AND LETHAL WEAPONS27Foreword2977Natural weapons78Hand-to-hand combat7931Application of hand weapons8Pot31Hand weapons81Peyote31Knives81Psilocybin50Impromptu weapons83DMT53Brass knuckles and clubs85Bananas55Cattle a TrainingCough aine58Semi-automatic and automatic weapons95Chapter One:DRUGS8789and revolversHeroin58Shotguns98Nutmeg58Converting a shotgun into a grenade launcher98Paregoric58SilencersPeanuts58Hydrangea leaves59How to build a silencer for aHow to build a silencer for a submachine gun1Bows and arrows103Chemicals and gases104How to make tear gas in your basement104Defense and medical treatment for gases105Chapter Two:ELECTRONICS, SABOTAGE,AND SURVEILLANCE61Electronic bugging devices63Microphones65Bumper beepers6898Chapter Four:EXPLOSIVES AND BOOBY TRAPS70How to make nitroglycerinHow to make mercury fulminateHow to make blasting gelatinElectronic scramblers70Formulas for theMail order and70How to make chloride of azodeBroadcasting free radio71Formulas for ammoniumTelephone and communications sabotage72FormulasOther forms of sabotage74How to make TNTVoice-activated tape recorders68Electronic bug detection69Electronicjammingretail electronics outlets100pistolstraight1 16117for gelatin dynamitesTHE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK118/5
CONTENTS/PageHowHowtomaketetiyl118Bangalore torpedotomakepicric acid119Molotov Cocktail120Homemade handHowFormulas for Mack powderHowgrenadeto make an anti-personnel grenademake smokeless powder121How to make nitrogen tri-iodide121BookFormulas for different-colered smoke screens121Door-handle trapsHouseholdtotrap122Loose floorboard trapSafety precautions122Gate trapBasic formulas for demolitions use125ChimneySome importantTamping125Lamp128CarPlacement of charges129Pipe trapBridge destruction130PenDetonators132Whistle trap and other handy devicesRelease of pressure detonators135CacodyalTime aptrapPostscripttrap148trap148trapBibliography
IllustrationsPa SeFigure1.PageFigure913440. Boxer primer3541.Hookah3842. Spring holsterPeyote464750545443. Spring shouldler holster5548.5549.Methodsforgrowing marihuana2.A mature marihuana plant3.4.5.A6.Stropharia cubensis and Psilocybe mexicana7.Primary8.Heating9.Final collection ofseparatory funnelfiltering ofhomemadeDMTDMT solution in water bathDMT10. Table, of weights44.45.46.47.SpanOpen-end quick-draw holsterBrowning high-power rifleH & R Model 301 ultra bolt-action carbineH & R Model 330 bolt-action rifleRemington bolt-action Model 788Martin 62 Levermatic Rifle11.Eavesdropper6150. Universal Enforcer automatic carbine12.14.Crystal15.Dynamic Microphone6266666751. Armalite Rr- 180 carbine13.ThebyphoneThe carbon button16.MicrophoneButtonhole mike, subminiature mike, suction-cupwall listener, and the parabolic reflector17.18.The snakeThe electronicfor typical pre-1 964 Chevie19.Keyhole20.The21Common.stethoscopecorrect grip for holding a knifehatpinhand weaponMarine Corps combat knife24. Air Force survival kit25. Throwing knife22. Beer-can23.26.Brass knuckles27. Kelly28.Come-AlongSap gloves29. Different types of billies and blackjacks30.31.Mob-controlGarrotestickSabotage against moving vehicles33. Browning high-power automatic pistol34. Smith & Wesson 9-mm. automatic pistol32.Commander automatic pistol& Wesson combat masterpiece revolverCharter Arms undercover .38 special35. Colt36. Smith37.38. Colt official police revolver39. Llama Model VIII automatic pistol92929293holster52. Browning high-power automatic949494949595rifle“Apache” carbineand Richardson 360 ultra-automaticJ & R 68 semi-automatic carbineRemington 742 WoodmasterPlainfield Machine Co. carbineUniversal 1000 auto-loading carbineWinchester 100 auto-loading carbineRuger .44 magnum carbine53. Eagle54. Harrington55.676756.6858.57.7659.8160.8361. Converting a shotgun into a grenade launcher8484848462. Silencer for pistol8566.63.9696969696969797979799100101Thompson submachine gun with silencerThompson silencerM-3 submachine gun with silencer02'64. Cross-section view of165.10285Crossbow67. Equipment8568. Darts for rapid injection10310610886858769. Police projectiles109888972. Nonelectrical blasting70.71.The crazedsetupfor preparing tear gas111anarchist123126Opening explosivescap1261261261 2712773. Safety fuse898974. Crimpers9090909076. Priming dynamite electrically75. Electrical blasting cap77. Lacing dynamite12SI2S78. Lacing plastique79.Tamping crater chargesTHE ANARCHIST COOKBOOKi7
8/ILLUSTRATIONSFigurePage80. Using explosives to cut through materialsFigure12912996. Nipple timelarge buildings12999.83. Stringer bridge100.84. Slab bridge130130bombbombMagnifying-glass bombAlarm-clock time bombRoad trap101.Walk trapT-beam131102. Bangalore torpedo1311321321331 34103. Molotov Cocktail81. Railroad Sabotage82.85.Type of placement and tampingto destroybridge86. Concrete cantilever bridge87. Truss bridge88. Suspension bridge89. Tension-release detonator90. Military grenade91.Pull-trigger electric detonator92. Pressure-trigger device under driver’s seat93. Pressure-plate detonator94. Release of pressure detonator95. Tension-release detonator97. Incendiary time98.136104.Homemade105.Bookgrenadetrap106. Door-handle traps107. Loose floorboard trap108. Pressure-release gate trap135109. Pipe traps137138139111. Whistle trap110. Ball-pointpen trap
Aprefatory note on Anarchism todaybyP.M. BergmanWelive inhome.atan age of anarchy both abroad and—President RichardM. NixonConfronted with a choice, the American peoplewould choose the policeman’s truncheon overthe Anarchist’s bomb.—ViceTherevolutionary reaches beyond dissent tonihilism—AgnewPresident Spiro T.and anarchy.—Mayor John V. LindsayThis is a brutal book sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel.However, it is timely and well-written, even witty. Professionally and painstakingly, all possible informative instruc-ent “Cookbook.”tions for individual actions of destruction having a pre-American constitutional “freedom of speech.” ButsumablyTherecountries even the clandestine literature does not, so far asnot asocial effect are detailed here.isnopolitical merit in publishing thiscall to action.For therealcially for the rebellious student,itbook;hardly contains anythingbasic that he does not already know. I believe thatusually the “square guy”it isHippy and Yippy, espe-who wantstoknow whatisitisgoingon, though (or because) shocked and even tantalized bysuch subjects.Moreoften than notReader’s Digest and Timewhoit isthe subscriber toconstitutes the literaryket for such boring commoditiesPeople Play.as, forexample.mar-GamesStill, the present book is an important reflection ofAmerican Anarchism. It has its historical precedent in asimilar “Cookbook” which was published in many editionsand sold openly around the turn of the century (by theAnarchist headquarters, at the time in New York City,167 William Street). Its title was Science of RevolutionaryWarfare A Handbook of Instruction regarding the Useand Manufacture of Nitroglycerine, Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, Fulminating Mercury, Bombs, Arsons, Poisons, etc.The book was written by the Anarchist J. H. Most, whowas the teacher of Emma Goldman.*—* Johann Joseph Most (1846-1906), a bookbinder by trade, wasone of the first Marxist deputies to the German Reichstag. He wrotethe first popularization of Capital. For his very radical publicationsagainst religion and patriotism, he was several times imprisoned.Ibelieveitappeared onlyto be very characteristic that such ain this country.The sameOne mightthink thisisisbooktrue of the pres-because of thein otherknow, show any similarities to such a “Cookbook.” Blanfamous “Instructions for Insurrection” concentrateson mass actions (even if initiated by Elites) like the buildIqui’s—ing of barricadessomething which neither Most’s Sciencenor the present “Cookbook” gives any attention to. And this,in fact, expresses the basic difference—between what—Ithink the only dif-Anarchismand revolutionary Marxism. I would like to go further andemphasize the specific nature of American Anarchism without denying that this local form still is Anarchism.The word “Anarchism” as used in the present bookmight be somewhat misleading, even a misnomer. As oftena word whichhappens, it is confused with “Nihilism”Wendell Phillips favorably used after it was introduced byference, evenisusually called—Turgenjev in Fathers and Sons. It frequented Russian literature until the time of Artzybashev. The chapter on narcotics, therefore, belongs to the present book. “Free Love”and in 1878 had to flee Germany. In England, because of hisextreme Anarchist views, Most broke with Marx and, after servingeighteen months at hard labor for advocating regicide, he emigratedin 1882 to the United States. Here he was, at the time of the Haymarket Square riot, considered the inspiration of radicalism throughout the country, but later, during the Homestead strike, Most spokeout against Berkman’s assault on Henry Clay Frick. He was imprisoned for alleged sedition after the assassination of PresidentMcKinley.THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK/9
10THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK/(also religion)missing here, for the good reason thatislost its sensationalThus the popular synonymous use of Anarchismismall,for Nihil-understandable: Dostoyevsky’s Netshayev was, afteran important collaborator of Bakunin.isNihilismthoughAnarchism, and Nihilism is revolutionary alan aberration of Anarchism. Like all otherisisitmodern revolutionary tendencies, it is based philosophion the Hegelian axiom: “Negation of Negation,” whichcallyEngelsFriedrichapprovinglywords: “All that existsisresolvedwithworth perishing”;expressed more simply in a noteAnarchists in West Berlin:left in“MakeCalling a policeman a “pig” seemsitpopularity in the Anarchist kitchen.Goethe’sor, as recentlya bank burned bykaputt what makes youmoment.understandably occurs especially in the formative stages asWhocan deny the historical importance of the wrecking ofmachinery by the Luddites (though today we are so cleverthat we tell them what they should have done instead)?There is no doubt that the assassination of czars and Russian governors effected,of political “criminals”ifnothingelse, different—something whichisweaponthe onlyBesides, name-callingisno doubt—anpower areavailable at thean emotional outlet (andrevolutionaries also have emotions). “Pig”anisassault,assault against the uniform which, though ais in itself a power, an assault against the wholepower structure. It is an assault and a crime punishableby law. Here is the strong policeman, heavily armed, withthe entire physical and ideological power of the state behind him, and he is attacked by a word by a word only,fetish,——butan attack.it is stillWhatwell as sometimes in the declining, depressive stages.and must antag-or to neutralize. But the actual relationships ofsuch that name-callingkaputtNot only Anarchism, but any other real revolutionarymovement is dragged into some forms of Nihilism. Thissillyonize the very people the revolutionaries want to win overwill the“pig” do? In the last analysisit isnot upwho, though having a loaded gun in hishand, has in fact no power; it is up to the state to give theanswer. It might not be “smart” of Bobby Seale to provokehis jailers by repeatedly calling them “pigs,” thereforegetting brutally beaten and put in isolation. But “pig” isto the policeman,his onlyhumanitymeans of defense against the attacks uponat the moment and gives him a chance torecognition for his beliefs and as atreatmentBasicallywhat applies to as not beenvalid for the often Hollywoodlike hijackings, the taking ofachieved in the “free” United States. Without denying theCom-and even for the more harmful “Anarchist cookThese methods are not “smart”; they are aberrationswhich sometimes border on insanity. But these methodsof the revolutionary struggle of today are here and existingand real and, in the philosophical sense, reasonable. Theyas well as such partisans as the Titoists inreflect the true stage of the revolutionary struggle in thestilltruly revolutionary character of the Palestiniandos, their newestcomman-weapon, hijacking, is surely an aberrationBut the taking of hostagesin their struggle for recognition.isnewnothingmunedidit,in revolutionary history.TheParisYugoslavia, the Maquis in France, and, before them, theMax-Hoelz Brigadein“Putschismus,” asmain,”inFrench,ising.”whole world.Weimar Germany.itiscalled inIts stage istoday again embryonic.In describing the American Revolution, history text-German, or “coup denot limited to Anarchism. In the earlyGermany, attempts at bombing of public toiletsand of the victory memorial in Berlin, or the famous bombing of the cathedral in Sofia ( 1923), and many other such“actions” were tacitly approved and initiated by Commutwenties innists, especially at thehostages,time of their decline.bookstellus only of such great episodes as the BostonMassacre, which unlocked the revolutionarypeople; of the Bo
Anarchist Cookbook. Contents AprefatorynoteonAnarchismtoday Foreword ChapterOne:DRUGS Pot Peyote Psilocybin DMT Bananas Amphetamines AmylNitrate CoughSyrup Glue Nalline Cocaine Heroin Nutmeg Paregoric Peanuts Hydrangealeaves ChapterTwo:ELECTRONICS,SABOTAGE, ANDSURVEILLANCE Electronicbuggingdevices Microphones Bumperbeepers Voice
