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Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks during the keynote address at the 2011 Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center on June 6, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
Steve Jobs on Thursday, in which interview subjects contacted on a background check discussed his previous drug use and tendency to "twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals." The FBI conducted a background check on Jobs when then-President George HW Bush was considering him for a spot on the President's Export Council, which he did not receive.
FBI file a quick, 191-page read FBI agents that Jobs' ethics could bend depending on the situation. The file also notes that "Several individuals commented concerning past drug use on the part of Mr Jobs." In the FBI interview with Jobs, he told agents he "experimented with marijuana, hashish and LSD" from 1970 to 1974, but said he had not taken any illegal drugs for five years. One interview subject -- all names were redacted -- told the FBI that Jobs used marijuana and LSD while in college and did not always support a child born out of wedlock nor the Advertisement mother. The subject did say that Jobs would be qualified to hold a political position, because he believed "honesty and integrity are not required qualities to hold such a position." Another subject, a woman who apparently had known Jobs since they were young, admitted to experimenting with different drugs with Jobs, but said that Jobs had become health-conscious and rarely even drank by 1991. "She also stated that his success at Apple which provided an enormous amount of power for the Appointee also caused him at times to lose sight of honesty and integrity and even caused him to distort the truth at times to get his way," the report on that interview states. That interview subject recommended Jobs for an appointment within the government, as did almost everyone contacted by the FBI, despite many negative feelings conveyed. The interviews took place while Jobs was leading the fledgling computer company he founded after he originally left Apple in a bitter feud. Apple sued Jobs for allegedly taking proprietary information with him when he left, a lawsuit that is referenced several times in the FBI file. The FBI's Criminal Investigative Division was contacted on the manner, according to a letter in the file from that group's head at the time, but he said an investigation was not in order. Jobs later returned to Apple as CEO when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy and led it back to a powerful position in the tech community thanks to the development of the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad devices. Bloomberg News reported that the FBI released the documents after a Freedom of Information Act request -- FBI files can be made public after a person's death.
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