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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HEADQUARTERS 591ST AAA REGIMENT ISSUES REPORT ON SHOOTDOWN 1981.PDFHeadquarters 591st AAA Regiment Issues Report on Shootdown 1981
HEADQUARTERS 591ST AAA REGIMENT ISSUES REPORT ON SHOOTDOWN 1982.PDFHeadquarters 591st AAA Regiment Issues Report on Shootdown 1982
HEADQUARTERS 591ST AAA REGIMENT ISSUES REPORT ON SHOOTDOWN 1983.PDFHeadquarters 591st AAA Regiment Issues Report on Shootdown 1983
HEADQUARTERS 9TH REGIMENT NVA 968TH DIVISION, OPERATING IN SOUTHERN LAOS REPORTS ON DOWNING OF AIRCRAFT, 31 OCTOBER 1972 1940.PDFHeadquarters 9th Regiment NVA 968th Division, Operating in Southern Laos Reports on Downing of Aircraft, 31 October 1972 1940
HEADQUARTERS 9TH REGIMENT NVA 968TH DIVISION, OPERATING IN SOUTHERN LAOS REPORTS ON DOWNING OF AIRCRAFT, 31 OCTOBER 1972 1941.PDFHeadquarters 9th Regiment NVA 968th Division, Operating in Southern Laos Reports on Downing of Aircraft, 31 October 1972 1941
HEADQUARTERS 9TH REGIMENT NVA 968TH DIVISION, OPERATING IN SOUTHERN LAOS REPORTS ON DOWNING OF AIRCRAFT, 31 OCTOBER 1972 1942.PDFHeadquarters 9th Regiment NVA 968th Division, Operating in Southern Laos Reports on Downing of Aircraft, 31 October 1972 1942
HEADQUARTES, NVA 29TH REGIMENT, OPERATING IN SOUTHERN LAOS, REPORTS RESULTS OF COMBAT 1941.PDFHeadquartes, NVA 29th Regiment, Operating in Southern Laos, Reports Results of Combat 1941
HELICOPTER SHOT DOWN IN MILITARY REGION FIVE 0485.PDFHelicopter Shot Down in Military Region Five 0485
HOSTILE AIR ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHERN NVN AND AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWN BY NVN 274TH SAM REGIMENT 1796.PDFHostile Air Activity Over Southern NVN and Aircraft Shootdown by NVN 274th SAM Regiment 1796
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT DOWN NEAR HAIPHONG ON 19 NOVEMBER 1967 0916.PDFHostile Aircraft Down Near Haiphong on 19 November 1967 0916
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT DOWN NEAR HAIPHONG ON 19 NOVEMBER 1967 0917.PDFHostile Aircraft Down Near Haiphong on 19 November 1967 0917
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT DOWN NEAR HAIPHONG ON 19 NOVEMBER 1967 0918.PDFHostile Aircraft Down Near Haiphong on 19 November 1967 0918
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT DOWN NEAR HAIPHONG ON 19 NOVEMBER 1967 0919.PDFHostile Aircraft Down Near Haiphong on 19 November 1967 0919
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT DOWN NEAR HAIPHONG ON 19 NOVEMBER 1967 0920.PDFHostile Aircraft Down Near Haiphong on 19 November 1967 0920
HOSTILE AIRCRAFT DOWNED BY AAA NEAR BAC NINH 0466.PDFHostile Aircraft Downed by AAA Near Bac Ninh 0466
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