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The dossier contains basic biographical information, interviews with friends and associates, and a check of his legal and financial record. Many people the FBI talked with praised him as visionary leader and strong personality. Others, not so much.

His abrasive style obviously made him some enemies. One woman said that Jobs’s initial success at Apple Computer provided him an enormous amount of power “but also at times caused him to lose sight of honor and integrity and even caused him to distort the truth at times to get his way.”

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Having

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By Adam Satariano and Karen Gullo

(Updates with FBI file information in second paragraph.)

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with people who say he had a penchant to “distort reality.”

The 191 pages of FBI records are part of a 1991 background check of Jobs, who died in October 2011, for an appointment by former President George H.W. Bush to the President’s Export Council.

The file includes the results of interviews with Jobs and those who knew him. The records reinforce the picture of Jobs that has been known to many followers of his career and Apple. Biographer Walter Isaacson’s best-selling book about Jobs,

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The dossier contains basic biographical information, interviews with friends and associates, and a check of his legal and financial record. Many people the FBI talked with praised him as visionary leader and strong personality. Others, not so much.

His abrasive style obviously made him some enemies. One woman said that Jobs’s initial success at Apple Computer provided him an enormous amount of power “but also at times caused him to lose sight of honor and integrity and even caused him to distort the truth at times to get his way.”

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Having

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On Thursday the agency released a file on Jobs that it had compiled in 1991, when the Apple Inc.co-founder was in the running for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush. Included in the 191-page document are confirmations of Jobs’ dabblings in marijuana and LSD, his strained relationship with a high school girlfriend with whom he had a child out of wedlock and even some scribbled notes from a time he received a bomb threat in 1985.

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One critic interviewed by the FBI went so far as to say that he thought Mr. Jobs would make a fine politician. He did not mean this as a compliment.

“He concluded by saying that although he does not consider [Jobs] to be a personal friend, he believed [Jobs] has what it takes to assume a high political position within the government, which in his opinion, honesty and integrity are not prerequisites to assume such a position,” reported the FBI agent who conducted the interview.

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At the time, in early

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By Adam Satariano and Karen Gullo

(Updates with FBI file information in second paragraph.)

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with people who say he had a penchant to “distort reality.”

The 191 pages of FBI records are part of a 1991 background check of Jobs, who died in October 2011, for an appointment by former President George H.W. Bush to the President’s Export Council.

The file includes the results of interviews with Jobs and those who knew him. The records reinforce the picture of Jobs that has been known to many followers of his career and Apple. Biographer Walter Isaacson’s best-selling book about Jobs,

Read More from the Article Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-10/jobs-fbi-file-notes-drug-use-tendency-to-distort-reality-.html

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On Thursday the agency released a file on Jobs that it had compiled in 1991, when the Apple Inc.co-founder was in the running for an appointment under President George H.W. Bush. Included in the 191-page document are confirmations of Jobs’ dabblings in marijuana and LSD, his strained relationship with a high school girlfriend with whom he had a child out of wedlock and even some scribbled notes from a time he received a bomb threat in 1985.

Read More from the Article Source: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-apple-jobs-fbi-20120210,0,7473333.story?track=rss