Pentagon File Details Steve Jobs' Drug Use, Past Arrest, Blackmail Concerns

A Department of Defense document filled out when Jobs underwent a background check for a Top Secret security clearance in the 1980s reveals some new information about the late Apple CEO, reports Wired.

Blackmail Concerns:
[Jobs] had an illegitimate daughter and felt that "the type of blackmail or threat that could be made against me would be if someone kidnapped [her]." But he added that if he were blackmailed, it would "primarily be for the purpose of money, not because I may have access to classified Top Secret material or documents."

"f I do receive my clearance," he said, "there can be a possibility of blackmail and I do acknowledge this fact."

Drug Use:
"I used LSD from approximately 1972 to 1974. Throughout that period of time I used the LSD approximately ten to fifteen times. I would ingest the LSD on a sugar cube or in a hard form of gelatin. I would usually take the LSD when I was by myself. I have no words to explain the effect the LSD had on me, although, I can say it was a positive life changing experience for me and I am glad I went through that experience."

Jobs also revealed that he had smoked marijuana with friends or eaten it cooked in brownies but that the last time he had used the drug was in 1977.

"The best way I would describe the effect of the marijuana and the hashish is that it would make me relaxed and creative," he told investigators.

Illegal Phone Phreaking:
"The challenge was not that I could make long distance phone calls for free, but to be able to put a device together that could accomplish that task," he said in his statement. "I did not make a profit from what I considered this to really be a 'project.' At the age of approximately fourteen, it was a technical challenge, not a challenge to be able to break the law."

Arrest:
Jobs was arrested in 1975 over a minor infraction. He didn't mention it in the Personnel Security Questionnaire because he didn't consider it an "actual arrest". It occurred in Eugene, Oregan when he was questioned by police for suspicion of possessing alcohol as a minor. The police noted he had an outstanding arrest warrant for an unpaid speeding ticket and arrested him on the spot. Jobs paid the ticket and that was the end of the matter.

"I had no intentions of falsifying my PSQ for not listing this incident and did not think of the above incident at the time of answering the PSQ," he wrote in a statement.

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