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Steve Jobs’ FBI file released

Thursday, February 9, 2012 · 10:30 am · 27 Comments

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation just made public its background check on the Apple co-founder [Steve Jobs],” Joseph Walker reports for The Wall Street Journal. “The agency assembled the investigation in 1991 because Jobs was being considered for a presidential appointment by George H.W. Bush to the President’s Export Council.”

“The Wall Street Journal/FINS.com requested the file through the Freedom of Information Act,” Walker reports.

In the file, one “source says that ‘based upon his newfound religious beliefs, the Appointee lives more of a spartanlike and at times even monastic existence,’” Walker reports. “And while Jobs ‘is not an engineer in the real sense, he understands base technology and technical jargon to the extent that he is an innovative force within the technical community, in terms of the contributions he has made.’”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Note: The full FBI file is here

[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]

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27 Comments

silverhawk1

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 10:49 am · Reply

Is this the birth of RDF? “…Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.”
- CitizenX
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:44 pm · Reply
  
  Don’t we all do that?
  
  Nobody changed the world being bland.
castelbuono

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:03 am · Reply

Redactors have a strange, distorted way of painting history, then presenting it as “reality”.
- Mark S.
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:04 pm · Reply
  
  Yes, this is the case with Obama.
Ballmer's left nut

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:08 am · Reply

I always knew Steve-O was a closet conservative. That’s why he gave that Kenyan bushwhacker a spanking at the Silicon Valley dinner.
- Jean Poole
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:18 am · Reply
  
  “I’ll drink to that – twice – hic”.
  - Jackson
    
    Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 10:32 pm · Reply
    
    You’re a Brit. Mind your own business.
    
    And how did this thread turn into a yet another racist digression?
- MidWest Mac
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:45 am · Reply
  
  Okay you Irish potato farmer.
  
  See how dumb that makes me sound?
m159

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:33 am · Reply

Bill Gates couldn’t even make a functional bomb.
- mkmooresr
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:43 pm · Reply
  
  Yes he did…….. Microsoft.
  - MacRaven
    
    Friday, February 10, 2012 - 8:14 am · Reply
    
    Like!
progressiveagentprovocateur

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:36 am · Reply

SJ was an arrogant, petulant asshole- a dick, to be sure. He surrounded himself with some very intelligent and insightful people and used them like a tissue and then threw them away.

The company he founded likewise has an ongoing and increasing reputation for abusing workers, business partners, developers, associates and customers. The slow strangulation of european resellers to feed the greed machine of Apple retail, the use of almost slave labor in China, the hostility to union representation among retail workers, the tendency to abandon software and technology abruptly (Final Cut Pro comes to mind) are just reflections of what is inside this company.
- Am3ricanJo3
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:56 am · Reply
  
  I really hope that I am being ignorant and inperceptive (im?) and that you are deftly spouting tongue-in-cheek but if not, your comment is about as indicative of a troll as they come. Please leave your ignorant and uneducated comments off of this thread- unless, of course, you are trying to thread a small needle with delicate sarcasm… (just wanting to give the benefit of the doubt)
  - Tessellator
    
    Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:54 pm · Reply
    
    No, I am afraid he is just very young and dosen’t realize that his troll is so cringeworthy over-the-top that it seem like it is ironic sarcasm.
    
    Fortunately for fans of Jobs and Apple his message works (for us) on either level. It is either a scathing ironic criticism of the typical vacuum headed apple hater, or is is an example of one.
- omalansky
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:09 pm · Reply
  
  @progressiveagentprovocateur:
  Were you born retarded, you arrogant jerk-off, or did your mother drop you on your head?!
  - progressiveagentprovocateur
    
    Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 2:14 pm · Reply
    
    If you have read his bio, his dossier and the confirmed public knowledge on Jobs he comes across as a flaming asshole, and a user of people.
    
    Maybe you think that the Macintosh and other products excuse his behavior, but I think not. Mussolini made the trains run on time, but that doe not excuse his being a Fascist Dictator.
    
    The world has seen many brilliant people who were, to say the least, different, but that does not excuse being a raging asshole and an abuser of those around him. Maybe you are not old enough to understand, but living a life full of such poison takes a toll on the abuser and the abused.
    - omalansky
      
      Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 2:20 pm · Reply
      
      What you are spewing is your own pathetic interpretation of a great man’s life. There are millions of insufferable, overbearing people in this world, but how many visionary geniuses are there? Steve Jobs may have wounded a few egos along the way, but comparing his accomplishments to Mussolini is just another example of how retarded you are. Steve Jobs’ personal shortcomings don’t need to be excused or justified. Very few people would look like saints if we subjected them to the intense scrutiny that Steve’s life has received. Go back to your frozen Twinkies, dimwit.
    - mcdruid
      
      Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 5:33 pm · Reply
      
      Mussolini did not, in fact, make the trains run on time.
    - Indiemuppet
      
      Friday, February 10, 2012 - 2:23 pm · Reply
      
      Funny, I think I missed the bit about Steve’s genocides and war cries, ‘Progressive’…
      
      Look, we see your point that socially and professionally Steve Jobs could be unpredictable, but I believe WW2 dictator-analogies aren’t the best way of putting them across. As cliched and generalised as it sounds, I simply think most geniuses in history were in possession of some profound eccentricities.
- waterLily
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:45 pm · Reply
  
  you walk with swagger…
- Jack Whatnot
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 10:36 pm · Reply
  
  Okay – pray tell how he can simultaneously be an asshole and a dick? You can’t have it both ways.
Giles

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:18 pm · Reply

Even the F.B.I. is more open than Google.
- botvinnik
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:40 pm · Reply
  
  heh, good point Giles.
- Alex
  
  Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:57 pm · Reply
  
  best post ever
spyinthesky

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 1:19 pm · Reply

progressiveagentprovocateur: You have to be really good to make that sort of satire work. You failed embarrassingly unfortunately despite all the effort. Neither serious enough to fool or funny and insightful enough to entertain.
MidWest Mac

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 2:53 pm · Reply

@ progressiveagentprovocateur

Rubenstein, is that you?
Kristian

Friday, February 10, 2012 - 3:09 am · Reply

Why did these idiots release this file now? Isn’t there somekind of law in the US that keeps this kind of files classified something like 1000 years after persons death?