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 AAA RATED IN LAOS REPORTS ON SHOOTDOWN 1384.PDFUnidentified AAA Rated in Laos Reports on Shootdown 1384
UNIDENTIFIED AAA RATED IN LAOS REPORTS ON SHOOTDOWN 1382.PDFUnidentified AAA Rated in Laos Reports on Shootdown 1382
UNIDENTIFIED AAA ELEMENT REPORTS ON SHOOTDOWN 1484.PDFUnidentified AAA Element Reports on Shootdown 1484
UNIDENTIFIED AAA ELEMENT REPORTS (673) 1484.PDFUnidentified AAA Element Reports (673) 1484
UNIDENTIFIED AAA ELEMENT REPORTS (672) 1484.PDFUnidentified AAA Element Reports (672) 1484
UNIDENTIFIED AAA ELEMENT REPORTS (671) 1484.PDFUnidentified AAA Element Reports (671) 1484
UNIDENTIFIED AAA BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1573.PDFUnidentified AAA Battalion Reports Shootdown 1573
UNIDENTIFIED AAA ASSOCIATED ELEMENT PROBABLY IN LAOS DISCUSSES PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN 1479.PDFUnidentified AAA Associated Element Probably in Laos Discusses Probable Shootdown 1479
UNIDENTIFIED 282ND AAA REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS 0706.PDFUnidentified 282nd AAA Regiment Reports Shootdowns 1706
UNIDENTIFIED 282ND AAA REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS 1705.PDFUnidentified 282nd AAA Regiment Reports Shootdowns 1705
Unidentified 282nd AAA Regiment Element Reports Shootdown (12/06/1970)Unidentified 282nd AAA Regiment Element Reports Shootdown (12/06/1970)
UNIDENTIFIED 282ND AAA REGIMENT ASSOCIATE ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS AND REVEALS HELICOPTER SHOOTDOWN 1702.PDFUnidentified 282nd AAA Regiment Associate Issues Instructions and Reveals Helicopter Shootdown 1702
UNIDENTIFIED 14TH AAA BATTALION ELEMENT ISSUES REPORT ON DOWNED ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1505.PDFUnidentified 14th AAA Battalion Element Issues Report on Downed Allied Aircraft 1505
UNIDENTIFED NVA ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF F-4 AIRCRAFT AND CAPTURE OF PILOT 1926.PDFUnidentifed NVA Element Reports Shootdown of F-4 Aircraft and Capture of Pilot 1926
UNIDENT ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN 0035.PDFUnident Enemy Aircraft Shot Down 0035
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