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 THREE 1227.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1227
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1264.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1264
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1360.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1360
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1581.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1581
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1593.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1593
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1594.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1594
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1721.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1721
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE 1954.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three 1954
DOC_1567.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Four (2002)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE OF FOUR.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Four (2003)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE OF FOUR 14.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Four (2038)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE OF FOUR 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Four 1996
DOC_1555.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Nine (1619) (2020)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE OF NINE (1619)3.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Nine (1619) (2038)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION THREE OF NINE (1619) 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section Three of Nine (1619) 1996
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