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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SAM BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 1814.PDFSAM Battalion Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft 1814
SAM BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1871.PDFSAM Battalion Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1871
ROUNDUP 72-229 1945.PDFRoundup 72-229 1945
RLA REPORTS U.S. PILOT HELD 0084.PDFRLA Reports U.S. Pilot Held 0084
RLA FORCES SCATTERED AS VAN VIENG FALLS.PDFRLA Forces Scattered as Van Vieng Falls 0005
RIVAL LAOTIAN FACTIONS SKIRMISH 0763.PDFRival Laotian Factions Skirmish 0763
RF-101 SHOT DOWN BY THE SAM FACILITY 0320.PDFRF-101 Shot Down by the SAM Facility 0320
RF-101 REPORTED DOWNED SOUTHWEST OF HANOI 0511.PDFRF-101 Reported Downed Southwest of Hanoi 0511
RF-101 DESTROYED BY SAM SOUTH OF KEP 29 APRIL 1966 0320.PDFRF-101 Destroyed by SAM South of KEP 29 April 1966 0320
RETURN OF VINH BASED MIG-21 TO PYUC YEN, FOLLOW-UP NR TWENTY ONE AND FINAL 1553.PDFReturn of Vinh Based MIG-21 to Pyuc Yen, Follow-Up Nr Twenty One and Final 1553
RETURN OF VINH BASED MIG-21 TO PYUC YEN, FOLLOW-UP NR TWENTY ONE AND FINAL 1552.PDFReturn of Vinh Based MIG-21 to Pyuc Yen, Follow-Up Nr Twenty One and Final 1552
REQUEST FOR SAM LAUNCH REFLECTIONS 0884.PDFRequest for SAM Launch Reflections 0884
REQUEST FOR SAM LAUNCH REFLECTIONS 0883.PDFRequest for SAM Launch Reflections 0883
REPRESENTATIVES OF U.S. PEACE MOVEMENT TO TRAVEL TO HANOI VIA BANGKOK AND VIENTIANE TO RECEIVE LIBERATED U.S. POWS 0881.PDFRepresentatives of U.S. Peace Movement to Travel to Hanoi via Bangkok and Vientiane to Receive Liberated U.S. POWs 0881
REPRESENTATIVES OF U.S. PEACE MOVEMENT TO TRAVEL TO HANOI VIA BANGKOK AND VIENTIANE TO RECEIVE LIBERATED U.S. POWS 0850.PDFRepresentatives of U.S. Peace Movement to Travel to Hanoi via Bangkok and Vientiane to Receive Liberated U.S. POWs 0850
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