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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TWO AMERICAN PILOTS REPORTEDLY CAPTURED 1276.PDFTwo American Pilots Reportedly Captured 1276
TWO AMERICAN PILOTS REPORTEDLY CAPTURED 1275.PDFTwo American Pilots Reportedly Captured 1275
TWO AMERICAN PILOTS DOWN 1477.PDFTwo American Pilots Down 1477
TWO AMERICAN AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER NORTH VIETNAM 1843.PDFTwo American Aircraft Shot Down Over North Vietnam 1843
TWO AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER DRV 0128 (1).PDFTwo Aircraft Shot Down Over DRV 0128
TWO AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER DRV 0128.PDFTwo Aircraft Shot Down Over DRV 0128
TWO AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER DRV 0127.PDFTwo Aircraft Shot Down Over DRV 0127
TWO AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN OVER DRV 0127 (1).PDFTwo Aircraft Shot Down Over DRV 0127
TUYEN QUANG CONGRATULATES NGHE AN ON SHOOTDOWN 0708.PDFTuyen Quang Congratulates Nghe An on Shootdown 0708
TOTAL MIG-SAM-BORDER WARNINGS, OCTOBER 1967 0923.PDFTotal MIG/SAM/Border Warnings, October 1967 0923
TOTAL MIG-SAM-BORDER WARNINGS, OCTOBER 1967 0922.PDFTotal MIG/SAM/Border Warnings, October 1967 0922
TOTAL MIG-SAM-BORDER WARNINGS, OCTOBER 1967 0920.PDFTotal MIG/SAM/Border Warnings, October 1967 0920
TOTAL MIG-SAM-BORDER WARNINGS, OCTOBER 1967 0918.PDFTotal MIG/SAM/Border Warnings, October 1967 0918
TOTAL MIG-SAM-BORDER WARNINGS, OCTOBER 1967 0917.PDFTotal MIG/SAM/Border Warnings, October 1967 0917
TOTAL MIG-SAM-BORDER WARNINGS, OCTOBER 1967 0916.PDFTotal MIG/SAM/Border Warnings, October 1967 0916
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