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 SAM COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES REFLECT THE SHOOTDOWN OF AN HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND THE CAPTURE OF THE PILOT 0946.PDFDRV SAM Communications Facilities Reflect the Shootdown of an Hostile Aircraft and the Capture of the Pilot 0946
DRV SAM COMMUNICATIONS REFLECT AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWN ON 24 FEBRUARY 1059.PDFDRV SAM Communications Reflect Aircraft Shootdown on 24 February 1059
DRV SAM FACILITIES REFLECT THE CAPTURE OF TWO U.S. PILOTS ON THE 25TH OF OCTOBER 0873.PDFDRV SAM Facilities Reflect the Capture of Two U.S. Pilots on the 25th of October 0873
DRV SAM FACILITIES REFLECT THE CAPTURE OF TWO U.S. PILOTS ON THE 25TH OF OCTOBER 0874.PDFDRV SAM Facilities Reflect the Capture of Two U.S. Pilots on the 25th of October 0874
DRV SAM FACILITIES REPORT ON THE SHOOTDOWN OF A HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND THE SUBSEQUENT CAPTURE OF THE PILOT 0963.PDFDRV SAM Facilities Report on the Shootdown of a Hostile Aircraft and the Subsequent Capture of the Pilot 0963
DRV SAM FACILITY REFLECTS SHOOTDOWN OF HOSTILE AIRCRAFT BY DRV MIGS, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0541.PDFDRV SAM Facility Reflects Shootdown of Hostile Aircraft by DRV MIGs, Follow Up Nr One 0541
DRV SAM FACILITY REFLECTS SHOOTDOWN OF HOSTILE AIRCRAFT BY DRV MIGS, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0542.PDFDRV SAM Facility Reflects Shootdown of Hostile Aircraft by DRV MIGs, Follow Up Nr One 0542
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0531.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0531
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0532.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0532
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0533.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0533
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0534.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0534
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0535.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0535
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0538.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0538
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0539.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0539
DRV SAM SITES LAUNCH AT HOSTILE AIRCRAFT AND POSSIBLY DESTROY ONE NEAR PHUC YEN 0540.PDFDRV SAM Sites Launch at Hostile Aircraft and Possibly Destroy One Near Phuc Yen 0540
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