Summary
A report on the performance of a little-known intelligence agency during the Vietnam War has finally been published after being kept secret for 35 years. The agency is the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, known to insiders as INR. Historians are finding the report a valuable resource that rivals the Pentagon Papers, a secret Defense Department history of the Vietnam War that newspapers published in 1971 over strenuous government objections.
The study's several hundred pages show how the small agency, with a total staff of only 350, often outshone the huge Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency in appraising the weaknesses of the South Vietnamese government and the strength and determination of the communist Viet Cong guerrillas and their supporters in North Vietnam.See the full content of this document
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State Secrets
Publication was achieved through a Freedom of Information request by the National Security Archive, a non-governmenta...
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