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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DRV CIVIL ENTITY REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN HANOI 0535.PDFDRV Civil Entity Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Hanoi 0535
DRV CIVIL ENTITY REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN HANOI 0538.PDFDRV Civil Entity Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Hanoi 0538
DRV CIVIL ENTITY REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN HANOI 0539.PDFDRV Civil Entity Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Hanoi 0539
DRV CIVIL ENTITY REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN HANOI 0540.PDFDRV Civil Entity Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Hanoi 0540
DRV DAILY AIR SUMMARY NR 257, PERIOD 191600 THRU 201600 DECEMBER 1965 0213.PDFDRV Daily Air Summary Nr 257, Period 191600 Thru 201600 December 1965 0213
DRV DAILY AIR SUMMARY NR 257, PERIOD 191600 THRU 201600 DECEMBER 1965 0215.PDFDRV Daily Air Summary Nr 257, Period 191600 Thru 201600 December 1965 0215
DRV DAILY AIR SUMMARY NR 257, PERIOD 191600 THRU 201600 DECEMBER 1965 0216.PDFDRV Daily Air Summary Nr 257, Period 191600 Thru 201600 December 1965 0216
DRV DAILY AIR SUMMARY NR 260 0221.PDFDRV Daily Air Summary Nr 260 0221
DRV ENTITY MAKES MENTION OF DOWNED U.S. AIRCRAFT AND CAPTURED PILOTS IN CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE 0417.PDFDRV Entity Makes Mention of Downed U.S. Aircraft and Captured Pilots in Congratulatory Message 0417
DRV ENTITY MAKES MENTION OF DOWNED U.S. AIRCRAFT AND CAPTURED PILOTS IN CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE 0418.PDFDRV Entity Makes Mention of Downed U.S. Aircraft and Captured Pilots in Congratulatory Message 0418
DRV ENTITY MAKES MENTION OF DOWNED U.S. AIRCRAFT AND CAPTURED PILOTS IN CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE 0419.PDFDRV Entity Makes Mention of Downed U.S. Aircraft and Captured Pilots in Congratulatory Message 0419
DRV ENTITY MAKES MENTION OF DOWNED U.S. AIRCRAFT AND CAPTURED PILOTS IN CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE 0420.PDFDRV Entity Makes Mention of Downed U.S. Aircraft and Captured Pilots in Congratulatory Message 0420
DRV ENTITY REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN UNKNOWN AREA 0414.PDFDRV Entity Reports Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Unknown Area 0414
DRV MIG DAMAGED IN AIR ENGAGEMENT NORTHEAST OF HANOI, FOLLOW UP NR TWO 0459.PDFDRV MIG Damaged in Air Engagement Northeast of Hanoi, Follow Up Nr Two 0459
DRV MIGS DOWN HELICOPTER ON 6 NOVEMBER 1965 0185.PDFDRV MIGs Down Helicopter on 6 November 1965 0185
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