The bureau compiled a dossier on Mr. Jobs in 1991, when he was president of NeXT, because Mr. Jobs was being considered for an appointment to President George H.W. Bush’s Export Council. The government released the file on Thursday after a Freedom of Information Act request by Wired.com and other media organizations following the death of Mr. Jobs last year.
The F.B.I. interviewed what looks like an extensive list of people who knew Mr. Jobs, though all of their names are redacted in the file. While plenty of them had positive things to say about Mr. Jobs, calling him a “genius” and describing him as a great leader, they also dished a lot of dirt.
One anonymous source described Mr. Jobs as a “deceptive individual who is not completely forthright or honest,” adding that he will “twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.” Several discussed the fact that Mr. Jobs fathered a child out of wedlock.
Someone who appears to have gone to Reed College with Mr. Jobs said he was aware Mr. Jobs “used marijuana and LSD, while they were attending college.” Mr. Jobs did not appear to try to conceal his colorful past either; the file says Mr. Jobs himself discussed his past drug use during an interview with an F.B.I. agent on March 13, 1991.
The F.B.I. also learned that Mr. Jobs’s overall grade point average at Homestead High School, from which he graduated in 1972, was a 2.65 out 4.0.
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