FormerHewlett - Packardchairmen Patricia Dunn and Carly Fiorina each cited board appendage Thomas Perkins as an instigator behind their ousters from the technology company , according to audience the two gave Sunday night .

Dunn told newswriter Lesley Stahl that Perkins , of the Silicon Valley venture capital firmKleiner Perkins , launch a campaign to force Dunn off the board over how she conducted an probe of council chamber leaks . “ It was a classical disinformation campaign and he set the mentality for essentially everything that ’s believed about this [ case ] right now , ” Dunn said .

Dunn initiate an investigation of leak to the medium in 2005 and a 2d one in 2006 , in which HP lease outside secret investigators who allegedly used false pretenses to pull ahead access to phone records of HP music director , some employees and journalists who cover the ship’s company .

Perkins did not comment for60 Minutes , but Stahl reported that a spokesman for Perkins said Perkins speak to mass with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , the Federal Trade Commission , the U.S. Department of Justice and the California Attorney General ’s office to complain about the tactic used in the leak investigating .

Dunn claims that Perkins rick against her when she want to name Perkins board ally George Keyworth as the director who leaked news of board deliberations to a newsman in January . She say Perkins wanted the identity of the leaker keep secret but she would n’t match to that . Perkins , Keyworth and Dunn have all since resigned from the instrument panel of the caller .

Fiorina , who was fired as chairman , president and chief executive officer of HP in February , 2005 , told Stahl she believe Perkins and Keyworth were behind her ouster as well .

Fiorina say she initiated her own investigation of dining table leak in other 2005 after theWall Street Journalreported the control panel was consider an HP reorganization plan that would have strip Fiorina of some of her powers . Perkins acknowledged being the 2nd root for theJournalstory , confirming information the newsman gained from another seed , Stahl reported .

Fiorina said , of Perkins and Keyworth , “ Both of them were aligned in how they call up I should regroup the business . ”

Keyworth , other theater director and HP also declined to comment for60 Minutes .

intelligence describe at the sentence of Fiorina ’s firing aver it happened because the merger she engineer between HP and Compaq Computer in 2002 was n’t forge and that HP ’s stock price had fallen . But Fiorina said she was never leave any account by the board for her dismissal .

She also said she believes her downfall may have been due to her gender .

“ I think men understand other men ’s need for obedience differently than how they infer it for a womanhood , ” said Fiorina , who minimize the notion of a crank roof for cleaning lady when hired at HP in 1999 .

“ I ’m disappointed to have to say that but I think it ’s undeniably unfeigned , ” she told Stahl .