FBI releases files on Steve Jobs

He ‘is not completely forthright and honest’

The FBI Thursday released its file on the late Apple founder Steve Jobs that includes comments from former friends and associates, including one source who describes him as “a deceptive individual who is not completely forthright and honest.”

The FBI was doing a background investigation of Jobs in 1991 when President George H. W. Bush was considering his possible appointment to the U.S. Export Council. In the end, the appointment was never made.

Excerpts from FBI summaries of interviews with different sources regarding Jobs, who is also referred to as The Appointee:

“He characterized Mr. Jobs as a deceptive individual who is not completely forthright and honest. He stated that Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.”

“… Jobs basically abandoned [redacted] and their daughter; however, lately he has been more supportive of them.”

“… the Appointee will twist the truth in order to achieve whatever goal he has set for himself. He therefore considered the Appointee to be a deceptive person.”

“… the Appointee (Jobs) grewup in the late sixties and early seventieswhen drug use was prevalent and that she and the Appointee both experimented with various drugs although she would not be more specific as to the kinds of drugs involved, other than to say that experimentation was involved.”