Steve Jobs' Pentagon File: Blackmail Fears, Youthful Arrest And LSD Cubes

Steve Jobs

Wired:

Steve Jobs thought someone might kidnap his daughter in order to blackmail him, according to a newly released Department of Defense document that was filled out in the 1980s when Jobs underwent a background check for a Top Secret security clearance.

That revelation, along with some new details on Jobs’ drug use and a previously unreported arrest as a minor, comes from a questionnaire that Jobs filled out for the clearance investigation, which was acquired by Wired through a Freedom of Information Act request.

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[AndKoolaidForAll]

10:53 AM on 06/12/2012

Hardly disputable if he wrote it himself, but far less relevant as 'news' than to his biography.

[tendril]

10:20 AM on 06/12/2012

I am not the biggest Jobs fan (yes he did make a contribution to technology, design, style, etc.). What's the point of kicking him when he's already dead and not able to defend himself?

[J242]

12:44 PM on 06/12/2012

I don't think they are "kicking him" with this, just releasing more information about an interesting person. There doesn't seem to be any ill-will or negative intent here.