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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UNIDENT ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN 0034.PDFUnident Enemy Aircraft Shot Down 0034
UNIDENFIFIED AAA CONTROL AUTHORITY REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1455+.PDFUnidenfified AAA Control Authority Reports Shootdown 1455
U.S. STRIKE AIRCRAFT PROBABLY DOWNED OVER DRV - PILOT CAPTURED 0460.PDFU.S. Strike Aircraft Probably Downed Over DRV - Pilot Captured 0406
U.S. RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN AND ONE CREWMAN CAPTURED ON 25 NOVEMBER 1968 1329.PDFU.S. Reconnaissance Aircraft Shot Down and One Crewman Captured on 25 November 1968 1329
U.S. RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN AND ONE CREWMAN CAPTURED ON 25 NOVEMBER 1968 1328.PDFU.S. Reconnaissance Aircraft Shot Down and One Crewman Captured on 25 November 1968 1328
U.S. POW'S ANTIWAR STATEMENT PASSED ON LNA COMMUNICATIONS 1551.PDFU.S. POW's Antiwar Statement Passed on LNA Communications 1551
U.S. PLANE SHOT DOWN AND PILOT CAPTURED 0744.PDFU.S. Plane Shot Down and Pilot Captured 0744
U.S. PLANE SHOT DOWN AND PILOT CAPTURED 0743.PDFU.S. Plane Shot Down and Pilot Captured 0743
U.S. PLANE REPORTEDLY CRASHES IN LAOS 0393.PDFU.S. Plane Reportedly Crashes in Laos 0393
U.S. PILOT-POSSIBLY CAPTURED IN THE DMZ, BAN KARAI PASS AREA 1830.PDFU.S. Pilot/Possibly Captured in the DMZ, Ban Karai Pass Area 1830
U.S. PILOT DOWNED AND POSSIBLY STILL EVADING ENEMY 0173.PDFU.S. Pilot Downed and Possibly Still Evading Enemy 0176
U.S. PILOT DOWNED AND POSSIBLY STILL EVADING ENEMY 0176.PDFU.S. Pilot Downed and Possibly Still Evading Enemy 0173
U.S. Pilot Dead in Crash (11/27/1968)U.S. Pilot Dead in Crash (11/27/1968)
U.S. Helicopters Arrive in Oddar Mean Chey MSD to Claim Body of Downed American Pilot Follow-Up Nr 1 and Final (10/11/1970)U.S. Helicopters Arrive in Oddar Mean Chey MSD to Claim Body of Downed American Pilot Follow-Up Nr 1 and Final (10/11/1970)
U.S. Fighter Crashes in Military Region Four Pilot is Killed (05/25/1973)U.S. Fighter Crashes in Military Region Four Pilot is Killed (05/25/1973)
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