Vietnam Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Documents

September 2014

On 13 July 1992, the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs levied a task on NSA/CSS to review SIGINT reporting for relevance to the Vietnam POW/MIA issue and possible correlation to individual POW/MIA cases. NSA/CSS provided the Committee with three Correlation Studies, produced in August 1992, September 1993, and September 1996. Most of the information mentioned in these studies is chronologically organized by Reference Number (RefNo), which is listed as case #, and includes the incident date. The Department of Defense assigned RefNos to each incident in which there was the potential loss of life or capture. There are some entries without a RefNo or case #, but do have the incident date. The earliest incident is dated 1951 and the last 1988.

Over the next several months, NSA/CSS will post over 1600 additional documents related to POW/MIAs in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The documents are NSA field site reporting, NSA end product, summary reporting, memoranda, watch officers notes, and analyst communications. For ease of searching, those documents will be accessible under links posted for each RefNo for which they contain pertinent information.

The correlation studies and the documents related to the incidents have been previously released under the FOIA in the past, but they have never before been posted together, facilitating access to families and historians. In addition, the documents have been reviewed using the most current guidance, making this release the most complete of any prior releases.

 

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UNIDENTIFIED SAM UNIT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF F-111 1966.PDFUnidentified SAM Unit Reports Shootdown of F-111 1966
UNIDENTIFIED SAM UNIT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1954.PDFUnidentified SAM Unit Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1954
UNIDENTIFIED SAM SITE REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF HOSTILE AIRCRAFT 0825.PDFUnidentified SAM Site Reports Shootdown of Hostile Aircraft 0825
UNIDENTIFIED SAM SITE REPORTS POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN 1954.PDFUnidentified SAM Site Reports Possible Shootdown 1954
UNIDENTIFIED SAM CONTROLLER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN IN KEP-PHUC YEN AREA 1904.PDFUnidentified SAM Controller Reports Shootdown in Kep/Phuc Yen Area 1904
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION SUBORDINATE TO THE NVN 267TH SAM REGIMENT LAUNCHES MISSILES ON 6 NOVEMBER 1972 1943.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Subordinate to the NVN 267th SAM Regiment Launches Missiles on 6 November 1972 1943
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1850.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1850
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1849.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1849
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1848.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1848
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS MISSILE LAUNCHES ON 25 OCTOBER 1972.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Missile Launches on 25 October 1972 (2019)
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS MISSILE LAUNCHES ON 10 DECEMBER 1972 1951.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Missile Launches on 10 December 1972 1951
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS MISSILE LAUNCH PARAMETERS AND SHOOTDOWN 1798.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Missile Launch Parameters and Shootdown 1798
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS MISSILE LAUNCH PARAMETERS AND SHOOTDOWN 1797.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Missile Launch Parameters and Shootdown 1797
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS LAUNCHES 1934.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Launches 1934
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS LAUNCHES 1932.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Launches 1932
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