There are new insights in the Salt Lake Olympic bribery scandal. And much of it paints an unflattering picture of the Olympic bid committee. The information is contained in hundreds of pages of documents,released by the Attorney General's office. News Specialist John Daley browsed through this material and files this report.

The Attorney General's office released part of its file on the Olympic scandal-- 817 pages. It offers no bombshells, but it does reveal interesting details and paints an unsavory picture of Salt Lake's dog-eat-dog Olympic world.

In the Olympic scandal, virtually no one is talking. That's why, for reporters, documents often provide the only fresh information about the case. The latest example--the Olympic file from the Attorney General's probe.

The records include investigator's notes, interview transcripts, memos and official reports, presenting a mixed bag for Tom Welch and Dave Johnson--the former bid leaders facing 15 federal felony charges stemming from the scandal.

Some testimony supports their long-held claim they never tried to conceal scholarship payments to the relatives of members of the International Olympic Committee. And interviews with bid committee insiders show that high-profile trustees knew about the program, though they've denied it.

There's also a letter to then Salt Lake Mayor Palmer Depaulis, from 1989. The writer, who's name has been withheld, warns that inside the bid effort "there is a pattern of conflict of interest, favoritism, exclusion, misstatement, discrimination, using people, lying, and illegal acts."

Elsewhere, the records name two female escorts, once more raising allegations IOC members were treated to prostitutes. One witness describes a 1989 presentation to the USOC that wildly exaggerates Utah's readiness-, claiming a cross country facility was ready and light rail would be soon, when in fact completion of those projects was years away.

Another letter warns the AG's office about former SLOC President Frank Joklik, saying he'd been reprimanded for "unethical" business dealings.

The documents we got are by no means complete. To protect confidentiality, some audio tapes and many documents were withheld. Other information is blacked out.

But bottom line--what this shows is that serious signs of trouble with Salt Lake's Olympic bid were apparent nearly a full decade before the scandal finally broke.