Look! Who is Watching You: Rich and Famous Under FBI Microscope [SLIDESHOW]

The FBI has released secret files of background check it had conducted on the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple.

Based on interviews with Jobs' colleagues, the 191-page document shows that the iconic Apple man would tweak the truth and misrepresent reality in order to achieve his goals.

“Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals,” the FBI files noted, as revealed by several people who have worked with him.

The notes were prepared when he was considered for a White House appointment in 1991, during the George H.W. Bush administration.

The revelations include his conversion to Buddhism and early drug use. He has admitted using marijuana and LSD in his biography written by Walter Isaacson. The Apple co-founder was a victim of a bomb threat in 1985, with a $1 million ransom.

The FBI keeps a tab on people if they are in the news or subjected to any particular threat or if the matter is “alive”.

Some of the celebrities whom the FBI has trained its secret eye on are late Princess Diana, Anna Nicole Smith, comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and the list goes on.

Check out the slideshow to find out some of those who were under the FBI gaze:

1. Princess Diana
FBI has noted the Princess’ scheduled trip to the US in 1989 and noted that the Northern Irish political groups may hold a protest during her visit.

2. Marilyn Monroe
The FBI files noted Marilyn Monroe’s marriage with playwright Arthur Miller, who was suspected to be a communist sympathiser.
She was also linked to the Kennedies, according to the FBI files.

3. Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith was under the watchful eyes of FBI because she was under extortion threat or violence.

4.Bud Abbot and Lou Costello

Abbot and Costello are believed to be pornography collectors, according to the FBI files.

"A police informant furnished information to the effect that Bud Abbott, the well-known motion picture and television star, is a collector of pornography, and alleged he has 1,500 reels of obscene motion pictures," the BBC has reported as one FBI file as saying.

"Information was secured reflecting that two prostitutes put on a lewd performance for Lou Costello", for which they were paid $50 each,” the agent wrote in the file.

5. Steve Jobs
FBI opened a file on Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs, as he was considered for a top secret job at the White House by the George H.W. Bush administration in 1991.

6. Norman Mailer
FBI watched the activities of writer Norman Mailer mainly because he was suspected as a communist sympathiser.

7. Charlie Chaplin
The FBI opened a file for Charlie Chaplin for his involvement in anti-war politics and leniency towards the communist ideologies.

8. John Lennon
John Lennon’s criticism of the Vietnam War and his anti-war songs made him a communist sympathiser in the eyes of FBI. He was not given permanent residency in the US till 1976 by the Nixon administration.

9. Frank Sinatra
The FBI had a 2,403 -pages file on Sinatra, rumoured to have ties with organised crime and mafia links. Sinatra was under FBI surveillance for nearly five decades beginning from 1940s.

10. Jimi Hendrix
A 34-page note on guitarist Jimi Hendrix deals with his criminal history and drug charges. He was arrested by the Canadian police in 1969 on drug charges.