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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NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 24-1700Z TO 25-1700Z SEPTEMBER 1972 1926.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 24/1700Z to 25/1700Z September 1972 1926
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 25-1700Z TO 26-1700Z AUGUST 1972 1915.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 25/1700Z to 26/1700Z August 1972 1915
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 25-1700Z TO 27-1700Z DECEMBER 1972 1971.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 25/1700Z to 27/1700Z December 1972 1971
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 25-1700Z TO 27-1700Z DECEMBER 1972 1976.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 25/1700Z to 27/1700Z December 1972 1976
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 26-1700Z TO 27-1700Z DECEMBER 1972 1972.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 26/1700Z to 27/1700Z December 1972 1972
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 26-1700Z TO 27-1700Z DECEMBER 1972 1974.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 26/1700Z to 27/1700Z December 1972 1974
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 26-1700Z TO 27-1700Z JUNE 1972, SECTION ONE OF TWO 1884.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 26/1700Z to 27/1700Z June 1972, Section One of Two 1884
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 26-1700Z TO 27-1700Z JUNE 1972, SECTION ONE OF TWO 1885.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 26/1700Z to 27/1700Z June 1972, Section One of Two 1885
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 26-1700Z TO 27-1700Z JUNE 1972, SECTION ONE OF TWO 1886.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 26/1700Z to 27/1700Z June 1972, Section One of Two 1886
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 26-1700Z TO 27-1700Z JUNE 1972, SECTION ONE OF TWO 1887.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 26/1700Z to 27/1700Z June 1972, Section One of Two 1887
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 27-1700Z TO 28-1700Z OCTOBER 1972 1940.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 27/1700Z to 28/1700Z October 1972 1940
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 30-1700Z TO 31-1700Z JULY 1972 1905.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 30/1700Z to 31/1700Z July 1972 1905
NORTH VIETNAMESE AIR SUMMARY FOR 5-1700Z TO 6-1700Z AUGUST 1972, SECTION ONE OF TWO 1906.PDFNorth Vietnamese Air Summary for 5/1700Z to 6/1700Z August 1972, Section One of Two 1906
NORTH VIETNAMESE ENTITY REPORTS CAPTURE OF TWO AMERICAN PILOTS 1275.PDFNorth Vietnamese Entity Reports Capture of Two American Pilots 1275
NORTH VIETNAMESE ENTITY REPORTS CAPTURE OF TWO AMERICAN PILOTS 1276.PDFNorth Vietnamese Entity Reports Capture of Two American Pilots 1276
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