Wrong tense and wrong word used

In June 1998, the government had hired a team of experts from all over the world to be gathered here for a research project to compliment the history studies that we undertook in our secondary school.

The above is a sentence extracted from an article circulated through email.

Note that "had hired" is in the past perfect or pluperfect tense which should not be used here as there is only one action done [vide my earlier posting on Monday, February 8, 2010 concerning The Past Perfect (Pluperfect) Tense] while "compliment" has the meaning of "to praise or congratulate" that obviously is not the intended meaning which needs to be expressed instead by the word "complement" having the meaning of "to complete".

Hence, the sentence should correctly be "In June 1998, the government hired a team of experts from all over the world to be gathered here for a research project to complement the history studies that we undertook in our secondary school."