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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Daily General Directorate of Rear Services Summary Nr. 44 13 February 1971 Final Section of Three (02/05/1971)Daily General Directorate of Rear Services Summary Nr. 44 13 February 1971 Final Section of Three (02/05/1971)
DAILY GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF REAR SERVICES SUMMARY NR. 44, 13 FEBRUARY 1971, FINAL SECTION OF THREE 1701.PDFDaily General Directorate of Rear Services Summary Nr. 44, 13 February 1971, Final Section of Three 1701
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 1 FEBRUARY 1966 0241.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 1 February 1966 0241
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 1 FEBRUARY 1966 0243.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 1 February 1966 0243
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 1 FEBRUARY 1966 0244.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 1 February 1966 0244
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 1 FEBRUARY 1966 0246.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 1 February 1966 0246
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 10 OCTOBER 1967, SECTION ONE OF FOUR 0858.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 10 October 1967, Section One of Four 0858
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 10 OCTOBER 1967, SECTION ONE OF FOUR 0859.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 10 October 1967, Section One of Four 0859
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 14 AUGUST 1967 0793.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 14 August 1967 0793
Daily SIGINT Summary for 14 February 1968 Section One of Four (02/14/1968)Daily SIGINT Summary for 14 February 1968 Section One of Four (02/14/1968)
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 17 FEBRUARY 1967, SECTION THREE OF FOUR 0589.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 17 February 1967, Section Three of Four 0589
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 18 AUGUST 1966, SECTION ONE OF THREE 0432.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 18 August 1966, Section One of Three 0432
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 1966, SECTION 1 OF 3 0395.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 1966, Section 1 of 3 0395
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 1966, SECTION 1 OF 3 0396.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 1966, Section 1 of 3 0396
DAILY SIGINT SUMMARY FOR 2 JUNE 1967 0710.PDFDaily SIGINT Summary for 2 June 1967 0710
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