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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AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 1042.PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 1042
AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 1249 (1).PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 1249
AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 1249.PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 1249
AMERICANS AMONG VANG VIENG AREA CASUALTIES.PDFAmericans Among Vang Vieng Area Casualties 0005
DOC_94.PDFAn American Aircraft Downed in DRV on 5 September 1965 (09/05/1965)
An OV-10 Aircraft Fell in the Pond at Samrong (10/11/1970)An OV-10 Aircraft Fell in the Pond at Samrong (10/11/1970)
An Unidentified Air Defense Unit Reports Shootdowns of F111 and B52 Aircraft and the Dispersal of War Materials 1952An Unidentified Air Defense Unit Reports Shootdowns of F111 and B52 Aircraft and the Dispersal of War Materials 1952
AN UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT ARTILLARY FACILITY, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE 1785.PDFAn Unidentified Aircraft Artillary Facility, Follow-Up Nr One 1785
AN UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 304TH DIVISION REPORTS ON ENEMY OPERATIONS AND THE DOWNING OF AN AIRCRAFT 1873.PDFAn Unidentified Element 304th Division Reports on Enemy Operations and the Downing of an Aircraft 1873
AN UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 304TH DIVISION REPORTS ON ENEMY OPERATIONS AND THE DOWNING OF AN AIRCRAFT 1874.PDFAn Unidentified Element 304th Division Reports on Enemy Operations and the Downing of an Aircraft 1874
AN UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 304TH DIVISION REPORTS ON ENEMY OPERATIONS AND THE DOWNING OF AN AIRCRAFT 1875.PDFAn Unidentified Element 304th Division Reports on Enemy Operations and the Downing of an Aircraft 1875
AN UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF THE 250TH AAA REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ONE F-111 1945.PDFAn Unidentified Element of the 250th AAA Regiment Reports Shootdown of One F-111 1945
DOC_1548.PDFAn Unidentified NVA Element Reports on Prisoner of War Status (2020)
An Unidentified NVA Element Reports on Prisoner of War Status 1996An Unidentified NVA Element Reports on Prisoner of War Status 1996
An Unidentified NVN Air Defense Unit Reports Radio Hanoi Silence 1954An Unidentified NVN Air Defense Unit Reports Radio Hanoi Silence 1954
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