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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DOC_72.PDFChronological Summary of Significant Developments Noted Within the North Vietnamese Air Force Since August 1964 (04/04/1965)
CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS NOTED WITHIN THE NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE SINCE AUGUST 1964 0068.PDFChronological Summary of Significant Developments Noted Within the North Vietnamese Air Force Since August 1964 0068
Combat Operations Section MR959 Reports on Prisoners, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1987Combat Operations Section MR959 Reports on Prisoners, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1987
Combat Operations Section MR959 Reports on Prisoners, Follow-Up Nr Two and Final 1987Combat Operations Section MR959 Reports on Prisoners, Follow-Up Nr Two and Final 1987
COMINT REFLECTIONS OF THE SHOOTDOWN OF AN RA5C AIRCRAFT, 20 DECEMBER 1965 0215.PDFCOMINT Reflections of the Shootdown of an RA5C Aircraft, 20 December 1965 0215
COMMAND POST 174TH REGIMENT NVA 316TH DIVISION, OPERATING IN NORTHERN LAOS, DISCUSSES SHOOTDOWN OF AIRCRAFT, 25 JUNE 1972 1883.PDFCommand Post 174th Regiment NVA 316th Division, Operating in Northern Laos, Discusses Shootdown of Aircraft, 25 June 1972 1883
COMMAND POST, 174TH REGIMENT, NVA 316TH DIVISION OPERATING IN NORTHERN LAOS, ISSUES REPORT ON AIRCRAFT ACTIVITY, 25 JUNE 72 1883.PDFCommand Post, 174th Regiment, NVA 316th Division Operating in Northern Laos, Issues Report on Aircraft Activity, 25 June 72 1883
COMMUNICATIONS REVEALED THE SHOOTDOWN OF AN ALLIED HELICOPTER AND THE KILLING OF THE PILOT 0755.PDFCommunications Revealed the Shootdown of an Allied Helicopter and the Killing of the Pilot 0755
COMMUNICATIONS REVEALED THE SHOOTDOWN OF AN ALLIED HELICOPTER AND THE KILLING OF THE PILOT 1111.PDFCommunications Revealed the Shootdown of an Allied Helicopter and the Killing of the Pilot 1111
COMMUNIST CHINESE CAPTURE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN LAOS- LAOTIAN REFUGEE REPORTS.PDFCommunist Chinese Capture American Soldiers in Laos: Laotian Refugee Reports 0005
COMMUNIST CHINESE CAPTURE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN LAOS- LAOTIAN REFUGEE REPORTS 0010.PDFCommunist Chinese Capture American Soldiers in Laos: Laotian Refugee Reports 0010
COMMUNIST CHINESE CAPTURE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN LAOS LAOTIAN REFUGEE REPORTS 0011.PDFCommunist Chinese Capture American Soldiers in Laos: Laotian Refugee Reports 0011
Company 15, NVA Group 128 Issues a Report on Two Americans Captured by the Pathet Lao 1994Company 15, NVA Group 128 Issues a Report on Two Americans Captured by the Pathet Lao 1994
COMPANY ONE, 22ND AAA BATTALION REPORTS EFFORTS TO RESCUE DOWNED PILOT 1455.PDFCompany One, 22nd AAA Battalion Reports Efforts to Rescue Downed Pilot 1455
COMPANY ONE, 22ND AAA BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1455.PDFCompany One, 22nd AAA Battalion Reports Shootdown 1455
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