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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USA-32 CRITIC 11-68 1327.PDFUSA-32 Critic 11-68 1327
USA-29 CRITIC 8-72, FOLLOW-UP NR THREE 1971.PDFUSA-29 Critic 8-72, Follow-Up Nr Three 1971
USA-29 CRITIC 8-72, FOLLOW-UP NR SIX AND FINAL 1971.PDFUSA-29 Critic 8-72, Follow-Up Nr Six and Final 1971
USA-29 CRITIC 8-72, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE 1971.PDFUSA-29 Critic 8-72, Follow-Up Nr One 1971
USA-29 CRITIC 12-72, FOLLOW-UP NR TWO 1954.PDFUSA-29 Critic 12-72, Follow-Up Nr Two 1954
USA-29 CRITIC 12-72, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE 1954.PDFUSA-29 Critic 12-72, Follow-Up Nr One 1954
USA 32 Critic 4-68 Follow Up Nr One (02/14/1968)USA 32 Critic 4-68 Follow Up Nr One (02/14/1968)
US-ARVN PT BOAT CAPTURED BY CAMBODIAN FORCES ON 5 FEBRUARY INSIDE MILITARY REGION ONE, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE, CHANGE ONE 1555.PDFUS/ARVN PT Boat Captured by Cambodian Forces on 5 February Inside Military Region One, Follow-Up Nr One, Change One 1555
US-ARVN PT BOAT CAPTURED BY CAMBODIAN FORCES ON 5 FEBRUARY INSIDE MILITARY REGION ONE, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE 1555.PDFUS/ARVN PT Boat Captured by Cambodian Forces on 5 February Inside Military Region One, Follow-Up Nr One 1555
US-ARVN PT BOAT CAPTURED BY CAMBODIAN FORCES ON 5 FEBRUARY INSIDE MILITARY REGION ONE 1555.PDFUS/ARVN PT Boat Captured by Cambodian Forces on 5 February Inside Military Region One 1555
US-ARVN NAVAL ELEMENT CAPTURED, FOLLOW-UP NR 1 TO CRITIC 04-68 1228.PDFUS/ARVN Naval Element Captured, Follow-Up Nr 1 to Critic 04-68 1228
UNLOCATED SAM SITE IN THE HAIPHONG AREA REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ONE ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1924.PDFUnlocated SAM Site in the Haiphong Area Reports Shootdown of One Allied Aircraft 1942
UNLOCATED SAM SITE IN THE HAIPHONG AREA REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ONE ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1925.PDFUnlocated SAM Site in the Haiphong Area Reports Shootdown of One Allied Aircraft 1925
UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT ACTIVE OVER HAINAN ISLAND 0149.PDFUnited States Aircraft Active Over Hainan Island 0149
UNIDENTIFIED VNC MILITARY ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1559.PDFUnidentified VNC Military Element Reports Shootdown 1559
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