APPLE: Steve Jobs ‘twisted the truth’, say FBI files

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday released a 191-page file on Steve Jobs which paints an occasionally unflattering portrait of the late Apple founder.The report was compiled during a 1991 background investigation of Jobs by the FBI after former president George H.W. Bush recommended his appointment to the President's Export Council.It consists of interviews with co-workers, friends, family members and neighbors of Jobs, who died on October 5 of pancreatic cancer.

The FBI’s 191-page file on the late Steve Jobs — released Thursday — reveals that the feds were keenly interested in the Apple founder’s character, as well as his past drug use and criminal history.

This is what happens when opportunity, capitalism and collide: A week after the FBI posted its 1991 investigation of ?s co-founder as a PDF document that anyone can??download for free, one publisher has turned the 191-page file into a paperback. Cleverly called The FBI File on : By the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the book, ...

Federal Bureau of Investigation files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and re-issued, revealing the names of some of the movie star’s acquaintances with suspected communists who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage. The files had previously been heavily redacted, but more details are now public in a version of the file recently obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act.

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The release date for the first authorized biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been pushed forward to October 24 following his death, publisher Simon & Schuster said Thursday.The 656-page book by Walter Isaacson, entitled simply "Steve Jobs," had been scheduled for release on November 21, according to Simon & Schuster's publicity department, but the death of Jobs on Wednesday at age 56 prompted a rethink.

Yieldpig submits: I haven’t hated on Apple (AAPL) in a while so I felt like I was a bit overdue. Actually, I’m sort of joking. I respect the hell out of Steve Jobs, Colonel Kurtz style genius and how Apple has translated his vision in to mind blowing products that have literally reshaped media culture.