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 ELEMENT NVA REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AIRCRAFT AND CAPTURE OF PILOT 1908.PDFUnidentified Element NVA Reports Shootdown of Aircraft and Capture of Pilot 1908
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT NVA MILITARY ISSUES AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY REPORT 1796.PDFUnidentified Element NVA Military Issues Aircraft Activity Report 1796
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT MILITARY REGION FOUR DISCUSSES ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE PILOT 1951.PDFUnidentified Element Military Region Four Discusses Attempts to Capture Pilot 1951
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT MILITARY REGION 4 ON EFFORTS TO CAPTURE PILOT 1951.PDFUnidentified Element Military Region 4 on Efforts to Capture Pilot 1951
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT ISSUES BATTLE SITUATION SUMMARY REPORT 1911.PDFUnidentified Element Issues Battle Situation Summary Report 1911
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT ISSUES BATTLE SITUATION SUMMARY REPORT 1910.PDFUnidentified Element Issues Battle Situation Summary Report 1910
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT ISSUES BATTLE SITUATION SUMMARY REPORT 1909.PDFUnidentified Element Issues Battle Situation Summary Report 1909
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT ISSUES BATTLE SITUATION SUMMARY REPORT 1908.PDFUnidentified Element Issues Battle Situation Summary Report 1908
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT IN CONTACT WITH POSSIBLE BT-33 DISCUSSES DOWNED F-4 1543.PDFUnidentified Element in Contact with Possible BT-33 Discusses Downed F-4 1543
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT GROUP 470 REPORTS ON NORTH AND SOUTH BOUND PERSONNEL 1758.PDFUnidentified Element Group 470 Reports on North and South Bound Personnel 1758
Unidentified Element 5th Battalion 1st NVA Regiment Reports Shootdown (06/14/1969)Unidentified Element 5th Battalion 1st NVA Regiment Reports Shootdown (06/14/1969)
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 591ST AAA REGIMENT REPORTS CAPTURE OF ONE PRISONER OF WAR 1734 (1).PDFUnidentified Element 591st AAA Regiment Reports Capture of One Prisoner of War 1734
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 591ST AAA REGIMENT REPORTS CAPTURE OF ONE PRISONER OF WAR 1734.PDFUnidentified Element 591st AAA Regiment Reports Capture of One Prisoner of War 1734
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 14TH AAA BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. CRAFT 1430.PDFUnidentified Element 14th AAA Battalion Reports Shootdown of U.S. Craft 1430
UNIDENTIFIED DRV ENTITY REPORTS CAPTURE OF PILOT 0035.PDFUnidentified DRV Entity Reports Capture of Pilot 0035
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