The FBI’s file on the late Apple Computer pioneer Steve Jobs was released Friday and made public on the agency’s website.
The 191-page document, released under the Freedom of Information Act, consists of an FBI background check compiled during the George H.W. Bush years when Jobs was considered for an appointed position on the U.S. President’s Export Council, and documents “related to a 1985 investigation of a bomb threat against Apple,” said the FBI on its website.
The contents include interviews of Jobs’ friends who attacked his character, claimed he was “deceptive,” and said he was “not completely forthright and honest.”
Gawker reported that the “derogatory information” dredged up was “pretty rare” for a FBI background investigation.
“Often the agents only interview employers and people who are suggested by the candidate,” reported Gawker. “It’s obviously unclear who these quoted folks are, but if they were among the people Jobs referred the agents to, then he didn’t know his friends very well.”
Jobs also held a Top Secret security clearance between 1988 and 1990, related to his work with Pixar.