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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BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES COMMUNIQUE 1701.PDFBinh Tram 33 Issues Communique 1701
BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES COMMUNIQUE 1702.PDFBinh Tram 33 Issues Communique 1702
BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES COMMUNIQUE 1703 (1).PDFBinh Tram 33 Issues Communique 1703
BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES COMMUNIQUE 1703.PDFBinh Tram 33 Issues Communique 1703
BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES SEARCH ORDERS 1734.PDFBinh Tram 33 Issues Search Orders 1734
BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES SEARCH ORDERS 1743.PDFBinh Tram 33 Issues Search Orders 1743
BINH TRAM 34 ISSUES ENEMY ACTIVITY REPORT 1478.PDFBinh Tram 34 Issues Enemy Activity Report 1478
BINH TRAM 34 PRAISES SUBORDINATE 1596.PDFBinh Tram 34 Praises Subordinate 1596
BINH TRAM 34 REPORTS COMBAT LOSSES 1702.PDFBinh Tram 34 Reports Combat Losses 1702
BINH TRAM 4 REPORTS B-52 STRIKES AND OTHER AIR ACTIVITY 1488.PDFBinh Tram 4 Reports B-52 Strikes and Other Air Activity 1488
BINH TRAM 41 QUERIES 100MM AMMUNITION PICK-UP AND SHOOTDOWN 1705.PDFBinh Tram 41 Queries 100MM Ammunition Pick-Up and Shootdown 1705
BINH TRAM REPORTS ON DOWNED AIRCRAFT 1341.PDFBinh Tram Reports on Downed Aircraft 1341
BN 53, 267TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1830.PDFBN 53, 267th SAM Regiment Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1830
BODIES OF U.S. HELICOPTER CREW MEMBERS 1434.PDFBodies of U.S. Helicopter Crew Members 1434
BT-27 REPORTS VEHICLE MOVEMENT AND SHOOTDOWN OF HELICOPTER 1702.PDFBT-27 Reports Vehicle Movement and Shootdown of Helicopter 1702
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