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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SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIED AIRCRAFT OVER NORTH VIETNAM 0149.PDFShootdown of Unidentied Aircraft Over North Vietnam 0149
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. STRIKE AIRCRAFT 0189.PDFShootdown of U.S. Strike Aircraft 0189
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT OVER HAINAN ISLAND 0149.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft Over Hainan Island 0149
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT OVER HAINAN ISLAND 0072.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft Over Hainan Island 0072
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT ON 10 DECEMBER 1782.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft on 10 December 1782
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY UNIDENTIFIED SAM SITE IN DRV, 24 APRIL 1966, FOLLOW UP NR 1 0315.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft by Unidentified SAM Site in DRV, 24 April 1966, Follow Up Nr 1 0315
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY UNIDENTIFIED SAM SITE IN DRV ,24 APRIL 1966, FOLLOW UP NR 1 0316.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft by Unidentified SAM Site in DRV ,24 April 1966, Follow Up Nr 1 0316
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY THE 274TH SAM REGIMENTS 1813.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft by the 274th SAM Regiments 1813
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY THE 274TH SAM REGIMENTS 1811.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft by the 274th SAM Regiments 1811
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY DRV PILOTED MIG-21 1058.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft by DRV Piloted MIG-21 1058
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT AND MIG-21 LOSS - 26 AUGUST 1972, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE AND FINAL 1915.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft and MIG-21 Loss - 26 August 1972, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1915
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 1892.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft 1892
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 1891.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft 1891
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 1890.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft 1890
SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 0179.PDFShootdown of U.S. Aircraft 0179
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