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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UNIDENTIFIED UNIT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE AND FINAL 1841.PDFUnidentified Unit Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1841
UNIDENTIFIED UNIT OF 238TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS PILOT CAPTURES 1925.PDFUnidentified Unit of 238th SAM Regiment Reports Pilot Captures 1925
UNIDENTIFIED UNIT OF 238TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS PILOT CAPTURES 1924.PDFUnidentified Unit of 238th SAM Regiment Reports Pilot Captures 1924
UNIDENTIFIED STATION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF HELICOPTER, AND GIVES APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF AIRCRAFTS, CHANGE ONE 1739.PDFUnidentified Station Reports Shootdown of Helicopter, and Gives Approximate Location of Aircrafts, Change One 1739
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF TWO AIRCRAFT IN QUANG BINH AREA 1942.PDFUnidentified Speaker Reports Shootdown of Two Aircraft in Quang Binh Area 1942
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF TWO AIRCRAFT IN QUANG BINH AREA 1940.PDFUnidentified Speaker Reports Shootdown of Two Aircraft in Quang Binh Area 1940
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT 1983.PDFUnidentified Speaker Reports Shootdown of an Unidentified Aircraft 1983
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT 1982.PDFUnidentified Speaker Reports Shootdown of an Unidentified Aircraft 1982
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT 1981.PDFUnidentified Speaker Reports Shootdown of an Unidentified Aircraft 1981
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REPORTS DESTROYING A TARGET 1974.PDFUnidentified Speaker Reports Destroying a Target 1974
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER REFERENCES SHOOTDOWN OF AIRCRAFT 1973.PDFUnidentified Speaker References Shootdown of Aircraft 1973
Unidentified SAM/AAA Unit Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft (08/22/1972)Unidentified SAM/AAA Unit Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft (08/22/1972)
UNIDENTIFIED SAM UNITS REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1850.PDFUnidentified SAM Units Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1850
UNIDENTIFIED SAM UNITS REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1849.PDFUnidentified SAM Units Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1849
UNIDENTIFIED SAM UNITS REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1848.PDFUnidentified SAM Units Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1848
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