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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QUANG BINH PROVINCIAL UNIT ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1707.PDFQuang Binh Provincial Unit Element Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1707
QUANG BINH MILITARY ENTITY REPORTS CAPTURE OF U.S. PILOT 0240.PDFQuang Binh Military Entity Reports Capture of U.S. Pilot 0240
PURCHASES TO BE MADE FROM THAI DEALER.PDFPurchases to Be Made From Thai Dealer 0005
PROVINCIAL COMMITTEES IN EASTERN NAM BO RECEIVE ORDERS ON HANDLING CAPTURED PERSONNEL.PDFProvincial Committees in Eastern Nam Bo Receive Orders on Handling Captured Personnel 0005
PROBABLY CHICOM MIG ENGAGEMENT 0793.PDFProbably CHICOM MIG Engagement 0793
PROBABLE UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 16TH AAA BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AN F-4 1743.PDFProbable Unidentified Element 16th AAA Battalion Reports Shootdown of an F-4 1743
PROBABLE UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 16TH AAA BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AN F-4 (1000) 1743.PDFProbable Unidentified Element 16th AAA Battalion Reports Shootdown of an F-4 (1000) 1743
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. BY ELEMENT OF 274TH SAM REGIMENT 1814.PDFProbable Shootdown of U.S. by Element of 274th SAM Regiment 1814
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY UNIDENTIFIED NVN SAM BATTALION 1830.PDFProbable Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft by Unidentified NVN SAM Battalion 1830
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 1814.PDFProbable Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft 1814
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1897.PDFProbable Shootdown of Two Allied Aircraft 1897
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1896.PDFProbable Shootdown of Two Allied Aircraft 1896
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF ONE ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1954.PDFProbable Shootdown of One Allied Aircraft 1954
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF AN ALLIED AIRCRAFT OVER NVN 1792.PDFProbable Shootdown of an Allied Aircraft Over NVN 1792
PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1877.PDFProbable Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1877
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