in may 2004, the national security archive released a highly classified review of inr's written analysis of the vietnam war during the 1960s commissioned in 1969 by thomas l. hughes, then director of inr. the review showed that inr had repeatedly warned of the weaknesses of the south vietnamese government and of the failing us strategy in vietnam, and that, despite pressure from the military and pentagon, inr had portrayed and projected the course of the war more accurately than any other source.