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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Change Nr One to Follow-Up Nr Three to 2/G1/VCM/R643-72, Spot Report 1954Change Nr One to Follow-Up Nr Three to 2/G1/VCM/R643-72, Spot Report 1954
Change One Change to: Company 15, NVA Group 128 Issues a Report on Two Americans Captured by the Pathet Lao 1994Change One Change to: Company 15, NVA Group 128 Issues a Report on Two Americans Captured by the Pathet Lao 1994
CHANGE ONE TO AN UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT, 304TH DIVISION REPORTS ON ENEMY OPERATIONS AND THE DOWNING OF AN AIRCRAFT 1873.PDFChange One to an Unidentified Element, 304th Division Reports on Enemy Operations and The Downing of an Aircraft 1873
CHANGE ONE TO AN UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT, 304TH DIVISION REPORTS ON ENEMY OPERATIONS AND THE DOWNING OF AN AIRCRAFT 1874.PDFChange One to an Unidentified Element, 304th Division Reports on Enemy Operations and The Downing of an Aircraft 1874
CHANGES IN THE DISPOSITION OF NORTH VIETNAMESE RADARS 22-28 JANUARY 1970 1552.PDFChanges in the Disposition of North Vietnamese Radars 22-28 January 1970 1552
CHANGES IN THE DISPOSITION OF NORTH VIETNAMESE RADARS 22-28 JANUARY 1970 1553.PDFChanges in the Disposition of North Vietnamese Radars 22-28 January 1970 1553
CHICOM AAA UNIT REPORTS DOWNING OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN NORTH VIETNAM 0783.PDFCHICOM AAA Unit Reports Downing of U.S. Aircraft in North Vietnam 0783
CHICOM CAPABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE U.S. AIRCRAFT, SECTION THREE OF SIX 0149.PDFCHICOM Capability and Willingness to Engage U.S. Aircraft, Section Three of Six 0149
CHICOM Fighters Down U.S. Navy Aircraft Off Hainan Follow Up Nr Four (02/14/1968)CHICOM Fighters Down U.S. Navy Aircraft Off Hainan Follow Up Nr Four (02/14/1968)
CHICOM Fighters Down U.S. Navy Aircraft Off Hainan Follow Up Nr Three (02/14/1968)CHICOM Fighters Down U.S. Navy Aircraft Off Hainan Follow Up Nr Three (02/14/1968)
CHICOM FIGHTERS ENGAGE HOSTILE AIRCRAFT 0793.PDFCHICOM Fighters Engage Hostile Aircraft 0793
CHICOM FIGHTERS ENGAGE HOSTILE AIRCRAFT FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0793.PDFCHICOM Fighters Engage Hostile Aircraft Follow Up Nr One 0793
CHICOM FIGHTERS ENGAGED U.S. AIRCRAFT 0793.PDFCHICOM Fighters Engaged U.S. Aircraft 0793
CHICOM FIGHTERS ENGAGED U.S. AIRCRAFT FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0793.PDFCHICOM Fighters Engaged U.S. Aircraft Follow Up Nr One 0793
CHICOM FIGHTERS WERE ACTIVE IN HAIK'OU AREA 0149.PDFCHICOM Fighters Were Active in Haik'ou Area 0149
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