The report says Mr Strauss-Kahn was concerned at the time that a mobile phone he called his "IMF Blackberry", but which he used for both private and business communications, might have been hacked or interfered with.
The IMF also called on the U.S. to try harder to cut its budget deficit.
The IMF also called for a "decisive impetus to reforms" in the country.
Better to hope that the IMF is called in to slash budgets and order mass lay-offs, and then to take over and blame everything on the previous lot.
Last month senior figures in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on the Chancellor George Osborne to reconsider the pace of the government's austerity programme in the face of slower-than-expected growth.
The first is the IMF: whenever the economy has veered off course, the IMF has been called in to drag it back.
It has an ally in the IMF which has called for the BOE to slow the Basel III implementation timetable and look for ways to reduce bank funding costs by buying private sector assets such as bank bonds and providing long-term facilities such as are offered by the European Central Bank.
The so-called troika (the EU, IMF, the ECB) is delivering its report this week.
In the radical press and on the internet, the IMF is already being called a junta, comparable to the colonels who took power in 1967 with the connivance (most Greeks believe) of the United States.
Everyone knew that the finance minister was talking to the so-called troika - the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank.
The role the IMF is playing in the so-called Euro debt crisis, though, which has engulfed peripheral nations Ireland, Portugal, and Greece, and is threatening to spread to Spain and maybe Italy, has put pressure on the board to give the job to an European.
Meanwhile, the European Union has been calling on the IMF to back the plans for a so-called "Tobin Tax" on international transactions.
Ministers also called on the Greek government and the so-called troika - the European Commission, European Central Bank and the IMF - to agree the key parameters of an "ambitious" adjustment programme as soon as possible.
Yes, Britain will not have to contribute to a new Greek bail-out under what is called the EFSM but, of course, the UK contributes to the IMF and the fund will be heavily committed to the Greek bail-out Mark II.
They also think the so-called "troika" - the European Commission, ECB and the IMF - should be looking for imaginative ways to help encourage structural reform and economic growth at the same time - for example, through temporary wage subsidies for new businesses, or programmes to support lending to SMEs.
If you believe the IMF's new, higher estimates for the so-called "fiscal multiplier" (and some do not), a stimulus programme, or a more growth-friendly combination of spending cuts and tax rises - with fewer cuts in public investment - might well have delivered faster growth after 2010, without making the fiscal situation any worse than it already was.
New alarming forecasts of Greece's escalating debt, made by experts working for the so-called "troika" of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF - and which have been presented to European leaders and finance ministers meeting in Brussels this weekend - cannot be seen in any other way.
Yet IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is no fan of introducing a so-called "Tobin Tax" on financial transactions.
On a late spring day her PR director Bruno Silvestre called me to let me know his boss would be available in NYC after attending the IMF meeting in Washington.
The governor of China's central bank called for a new world reserve currency to replace the dollar , which he suggested could be issued by the IMF.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called for a referendum in Greece on the package of budget cuts and tax hikes required by European authorities and the IMF for bailing out Greece.
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