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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GUNSHIP DOWNED BY ENEMY FIRE IN LAOS 1807.PDFGunship Downed by Enemy Fire in Laos 1807
Ha Tinh Province Reports of Bomb Damage and Capture of U.S. Pilot (04/17/1966)Ha Tinh Province Reports of Bomb Damage and Capture of U.S. Pilot (04/17/1966)
HANOI GCI SITE ALERTS UNIDENTIFIED UNITS FOR POSSIBLE ALLIED RESCUE EFFORT 1939.PDFHanoi GCI Site Alerts Unidentified Units for Possible Allied Rescue Effort 1939
HANOI GCI SITE ALERTS UNIDENTIFIED UNITS FOR POSSIBLE ALLIED RESCUE EFFORT, CHANGE ONE 1939.PDFHanoi GCI Site Alerts Unidentified Units for Possible Allied Rescue Effort, Change One 1939
HANOI INTERVIEW WITH CAPTURED U.S. PILOTS 1252.PDFHanoi Interview with Captured U.S. Pilots 1252
HANOI SAM CONTROLLER MENTIONS CAPTURE OF PILOT, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0415.PDFHanoi SAM Controller Mentions Capture of Pilot, Follow Up Nr One 0415
HANOI SAM CONTROLLER MENTIONS CAPTURE OF PILOT, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0416.PDFHanoi SAM Controller Mentions Capture of Pilot, Follow Up Nr One 0416
HANOI SAM CONTROLLER MENTIONS CAPTURE OF PILOT, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0417.PDFHanoi SAM Controller Mentions Capture of Pilot, Follow Up Nr One 0417
HANOI SAM CONTROLLER MENTIONS CAPTURE OF PILOT, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0418.PDFHanoi SAM Controller Mentions Capture of Pilot, Follow Up Nr One 0418
HANOI SAM CONTROLLER MENTIONS CAPTURE OF PILOT, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0419.PDFHanoi SAM Controller Mentions Capture of Pilot, Follow Up Nr One 0419
DOC_1594.PDFHanoi Security Ministry Informs Subordinate of Disappearance of American Aid Employees (04/01/1965)
HANOI SOUTHWEST AREA SAM SITE REPORTS LAUNCH AND POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF HOSTILE AIRCRAFT 0885.PDFHanoi Southwest Area SAM Site Reports Launch and Possible Shootdown of Hostile Aircraft 0885
HEADQUARTERS 14TH AAA BATTALION NVA 316TH DIVISION OPERATING IN NORTHERN LAOS REQUESTS VERIFICATION OF SHOOTDOWN, 04 SEPTEMBER 1972 1918.PDFHeadquarters 14th AAA Battalion NVA 316th Division Operating in Northern Laos Requests Verification of Shootdown, 04 September 1972 1918
HEADQUARTERS 14TH AAA BATTALION NVA 316TH DIVISION, OPERATING IN NORTHERN LAOS, REPORTS ON AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWNS, 28 MARCH 1972 1801.PDFHeadquarters 14th AAA Battalion NVA 316th Division, Operating in Northern Laos, Reports on Aircraft Shootdowns, 28 March 1972 1801
HEADQUARTERS 559TH DISCUSSES SHOOTDOWNS 1600.PDFHeadquarters 559th Discusses Shootdowns 1600
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