Though few of the people involved in the case would discuss it openly, documents filed with the court, a paper trail more than a foot thick, paint a detailed history of the work.

But interviews and public documents paint a picture of a company with serious problems - serious enough for its owners to ask the Port Authority to find a way to take over some of its routes.

"These documents will paint a picture for the OKW, the Ober-kommando der Wehrmacht, for Hitler and his High Command."

These documents will paint a picture, Corky had said.

These documents paint a decidedly troubled picture of George Puttenham as a compulsive adulterer, a serial rapist and a wife-beater.

"I think these documents paint a much darker side."

Until it does, and unless those documents paint a dramatically new picture of the situation, the account of the Gehlen organization in the early Cold War will remain damning.

But the documents paint a different picture.

Today's documents also paint a picture of a legal and public relations team that was debating whether to seek the support of various public figures, all while insisting on secrecy.

Numerous documents, lawsuits and satires of his rival Quevedo paint a picture of a man jovial, sociable, and talkative, who loved card-playing and bullfights.