From internal notes and memoranda describing International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, written by organizers of Atlanta’s bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympics. The documents were released in September by the Atlanta Organizing Committee at the urging of Representative Fred Upton (R., Mich.), who chairs the House subcommittee investigating the relationship between the IOC and the Atlanta committee. The investigation aims to determine whether gifts, including those outlined below, were in fact ever offered or accepted.

Prince Albert de Monaco—Honest, open, and fun. Likes the good life: wine, women (some say men as well), and song. Relationship is all-important here.…