The report was completed in July 2014 but defense officials kept it under wraps until Friday, when The Washington Post obtained it under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Angello retired in 2013 while he was still under scrutiny. He refused to cooperate with investigators, despite a formal order from his superiors to testify. He did not respond Friday to phone messages seeking comment.

A former Air Force officer, Angello held his senior civilian post working for the Pentagon’s human-resources division for almost two decades. The inspector general opened its investigation after a complaint was filed that Angello had sexually harassed a young female employee in 2013.

According to witnesses, Angello slapped the woman on the back with a rolled up piece of paper while she was standing at the office printer, whispering in her ear, “You’re lucky that I missed.” The woman told investigators that Angello urged her to wear tighter clothes, told her she had “bedroom eyes” and once said, “you know, it is okay to be a woman in this industry and use your looks to your advantage.”

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Ten other staffers said there was a strong perception that Angello preferred to have “young, attractive female contractor employees” working for him. One witness said that when Angello took his female staffers on a trip, “he would get the whole ‘Charlie’s Angels’ thing.” Another said that he mused openly about having a “new, young wife,” according to the report.

Angello had several government contractors detailed to his office on a full-time basis. Investigators found that he regularly had them perform personal errands for him. Nine witnesses testified that he instructed the contractors to use his car — parked in a privileged space outside the Pentagon– to drive to a nearby gas station to buy alcohol and bring it back to the office for happy hour.