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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WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) 0600 5 OCTOBER - 0600 6 OCTOBER 1965 (PARTIAL DOCUMENT) 0162.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) 0600 5 October - 0600 6 October 1965 (Partial Document) 0162
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) 0600 3 NOVEMBER - 0600 4 NOVEMBER 1964 0042.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) 0600 3 November - 0600 4 November 1964 0042
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) 0600 26 JUNE - 0600 27 JUNE 0049.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) 0600 26 June - 0600 27 June 0049
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) #7 0600 18 JUNE - 0600 19 JUNE 1965 0055.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) #7 0600 18 June - 0600 19 June 1965 0055
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) #5 0600 21 DECEMBER - 0600 22 DECEMBER 1964 0018.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) #5 0600 21 December - 0600 22 December 1964 0018
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) #4 0600 18 OCTOBER - 0600 19 OCTOBER 1963 0018.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) #4 0600 18 October - 0600 19 October 1963 0018
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) #4 0600 14 JANUARY - 0600 15 JANUARY 1964 0027.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) #4 0600 14 January - 0600 15 January 1964 0027
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) #4 0600 10 OCTOBER - 0600 11 OCTOBER 1963 0016.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) #4 0600 10 October - 0600 11 October 1963 0016
WATCH OFFICER NOTES (WON) #4 0600 10 OCTOBER - 0600 11 OCTOBER 1963 0013.PDFWatch Officer Notes (WON) #4 0600 10 October - 0600 11 October 1963 0013
VINH SAM SITE POSSIBLY DOWNS HOSTILE AIRCRAFT 0458.PDFVinh SAM Site Possibly Downs Hostile Aircraft 0458
VIETPEACE REQUESTS DAVE DELLINGER TO SEND ONE REPRESENTATIVE TO VISIT HANOI FOR DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING RELEASE OF THREE U.S. POWS] 0850.PDFVietpeace Requests Dave Dellinger to Send One Representative to Visit Hanoi for Discussions Concerning Release of Three U.S. POWs] 0850
VIETPEACE REQUESTS DAVE DELLINGER TO SEND ONE REPRESENTATIVE TO VISIT HANOI FOR DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING RELEASE OF THREE U.S. POWS] 0828.PDFVietpeace Requests Dave Dellinger to Send One Representative to Visit Hanoi for Discussions Concerning Release of Three U.S. POWs] 0828
VIETPEACE REQUESTS DAVE DELLINGER TO SEND ONE REPRESENTATIVE TO VISIT HANOI FOR DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING RELEASE OF THREE U.S. POWS] 0823.PDFVietpeace Requests Dave Dellinger to Send One Representative to Visit Hanoi for Discussions Concerning Release of Three U.S. POWs] 0823
VIETPEACE REQUESTS DAVE DELLINGER TO SEND ONE REPRESENTATIVE TO VISIT HANOI FOR DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING RELEASE OF THREE U.S. POWS 0881.PDFVietpeace Requests Dave Dellinger to Send One Representative to Visit Hanoi for Discussions Concerning Release of Three U.S. POWs 0881
DOC_1593.PDFVietnamese Communists Release Japanese Engineer (04/13/1962)
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