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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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION FOUR 1483.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Four 1483
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION FOUR 1484.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Four 1484
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 0970.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 0790
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 0969.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 0969
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION SEVEN AND EIGHT 1418.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Seven and Eight 1418
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1189.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1189
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF EIGHT 1381.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Eight 1381
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF FIVE 1228.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Five 1228
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF FOUR 1228.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Four 1228
DOC_1552.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Nine (1628) (2020)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF NINE (1628) 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Nine (1628) 1996
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF SEVEN 1524.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Seven 1524
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF SEVEN 1734 (1).PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Seven 1734
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF SEVEN 1734.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Seven 1734
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, FINAL SECTION OF SIX 1734.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Final Section of Six 1734
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