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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POSSIBLY THREE PILOTS BEING HELD CAPTIVE NEAR KIM BANG 0490.PDFPossibly Three Pilots Being Held Captive Near Kim Bang 0490
POSSIBLE U.S. LOSS, 20 NOVEMBER 1972 1948.PDFPossible U.S. Loss, 20 November 1972 1948
POSSIBLE U.S. AIRCRAFT LOSS, 20 NOVEMBER 1972 1948.PDFPossible U.S. Aircraft Loss, 20 November 1972 1948
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIFIED U.S. AIRCRAFT BETWEEN 0607Z AND 0610Z ON 17 APRIL 1972 1828.PDFPossible Shootdown of Unidentified U.S. Aircraft Between 0607Z and 0610Z on 17 April 1972 1828
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIFIED ALLIED AIRCRAFT OVER DMZ 1800.PDFPossible Shootdown of Unidentified Allied Aircraft Over DMZ 1800
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT OVER NORTH VIETNAM 0151.PDFPossible Shootdown of Unidentified Aircraft Over North Vietnam 0151
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT OVER NORTH VIETNAM 0150.PDFPossible Shootdown of Unidentified Aircraft Over North Vietnam 0150
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT OVER NORTH VIETNAM 0149.PDFPossible Shootdown of Unidentified Aircraft Over North Vietnam 0149
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT 1816.PDFPossible Shootdown of Unidentified Aircraft 1816
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. F4B AIRCRAFT IN QUANG BINH PROVINCE 1926.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. F4B Aircraft in Quang Binh Province 1926
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. F-4 AIRCRAFT 1843.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. F-4 Aircraft 1843
DOC_1571.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. F-4 Aircraft (2044)
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT, FOLLOW UP NR TWO 0216.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft, Follow Up Nr Two 0216
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT, FOLLOW UP NR TWO 0215.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft, Follow Up Nr Two 0215
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT, FOLLOW UP NR TWO 0213.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft, Follow Up Nr Two 0213
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