Possible Clues:

• Cut into thin strips
• Ripped into thin strips
• Torn into small pieces
• A fair amount of the study by theologian in shelter is ripped to pieces
• Tore strips off cast including royal director and writer
• In bits and pieces, as documents
• Tore into little pieces
• Finely cut
• Cut up finely
• Torn or cut into little pieces, maybe confidential waste