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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DOC_1592.PDFProbable Description of Location of Eastern Nam Bo Interprovincial Committee Headquarters (12/09/1961)
PROBABLE CHICOM MIG ATTACK 0793.PDFProbable CHICOM MIG Attack 0793
PROBABLE CHICOM BORDER VIOLATION 0800.PDFProbable CHICOM Border Violation 0800
PROBABLE ALLIED PILOTS REPORTED CAPTURED, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE AND FINAL 1796.PDFProbable Allied Pilots Reported Captured, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1796
PROBABLE ALLIED AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWN 1816.PDFProbable Allied Aircraft Shootdown 1816
PROBABLE ALLIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED DOWNED BY DONG HOI BATTALION 1830.PDFProbable Allied Aircraft Reported Downed by Dong Hoi Battalion 1830
PROBABLE ALLIED AIRCRAFT REPORTED DOWN IN THE GOT 1830.PDFProbable Allied Aircraft Reported Down in the GOT 1830
PROBABLE ALLIED AIRCRAFT LOST IN THE VICINITY OF MU GIA PASS 1789.PDFProbable Allied Aircraft Lost in the Vicinity of Mu Gia Pass 1789
PROBABLE ALLIED AIRCRAFT DOWNED BY SAM FIRING 1816.PDFProbable Allied Aircraft Downed by SAM Firing 1816
PROBABLE ALLIED AIRCRAFT DOWNED BY AAA FIRE 1863.PDFProbable Allied Aircraft Downed by AAA Fire 1863
PROBABLE 593RD AAA REGIMENT REQUEST SHOOTDOWN INFORMATION 1824.PDFProbable 593rd AAA Regiment Request Shootdown Information 1824
PROBABLE 22ND AAA BATTALION REPORTS ON DOWNED AIRCRAFT 1341.PDFProbable 22nd AAA Battalion Reports on Downed Aircraft 1341
PROBABLE 22ND AAA BATTALION REPORTS ON DOWNED AIRCRAFT 1340.PDFProbable 22nd AAA Battalion Reports on Downed Aircraft 1340
PROBABLE 1ST AAA BATTALION REPORTS ON SHOOTDOWN 1443.PDFProbable 1st AAA Battalion Reports on Shootdown 1443
PRIOR AWARENESS OF ALLIED AIR STRIKES 1871.PDFPrior Awareness of Allied Air Strikes 1871
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