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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234TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS LAUNCHINGS AND AIRCRAFT IN FLAMES 1958.PDF234th SAM Regiment Reports Launchings and Aircraft in Flames 1958
234TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS LAUNCHINGS AND AIRCRAFT IN FLAMES 1959.PDF234th SAM Regiment Reports Launchings and Aircraft in Flames 1959
236TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS DEATH OF U.S. PILOT 1946.PDF236th SAM Regiment Reports Death of U.S. Pilot 1946
261ST SAM REGIMENT CONTROLLER REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AIRCRAFT 1916.PDF261st SAM Regiment Controller Reports Shootdown of Aircraft 1916
261ST SAM REGIMENT REPORTS FIRING AT U.S. DRONE AIRCRAFT 1871.PDF261st SAM Regiment Reports Firing at U.S. Drone Aircraft 1871
261ST SAM REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT (1201) 1871.PDF261st SAM Regiment Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft (1201) 1871
261ST SAM REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT (1202) 1871.PDF261st SAM Regiment Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft (1202) 1871
261ST SAM REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT, FOLLOW-UP NR ONE AND FINAL 1906.PDF261st SAM Regiment Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft, Follow-Up Nr One and Final 1906
263RD SAM REGIMENT REFERENCES DOWNED PILOTS 1830.PDF263rd SAM Regiment References Downed Pilots 1830
264TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS ON SHOOTDOWN OF F-111 1966.PDF264th SAM Regiment Reports on Shootdown of F-111 1966
264TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1974.PDF264th SAM Regiment Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1974
267TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1951.PDF267th SAM Regiment Reports Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1951
267TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS THE SHOOTDOWN OF ONE UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT 1841.PDF267th SAM Regiment Reports the Shootdown of One Unidentified Aircraft 1841
267TH SAM REGIMENT REPORTS THE SHOOTDOWN OF ONE UNIDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT 1842.PDF267th SAM Regiment Reports the Shootdown of One Unidentified Aircraft 1842
282ND AAA REGIMENT ISSUES COMMUNIQUE 1702.PDF282nd AAA Regiment Issues Communique 1702
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