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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NVN REFLECTION OF U.S. AIRCRAFT LOSSES OVER NVN, 10 MAY 1972 1850.PDFNVN Reflection of U.S. Aircraft Losses Over NVN, 10 May 1972 1850
NVN REFLECTIONS OF AND REACTIONS TO U.S. AIR OPERATIONS - 22 DECEMBER 1972 1960.PDFNVN Reflections of and Reactions to U.S. Air Operations - 22 December 1972 1960
NVN REFLECTIONS OF AND REACTIONS TO U.S. AIR OPERATIONS - 22 DECEMBER 1972 1961.PDFNVN Reflections of and Reactions to U.S. Air Operations - 22 December 1972 1961
NVN REFLECTIONS OF AND REACTIONS TO U.S. AIR OPERATIONS - 22 DECEMBER 1972 1965.PDFNVN Reflections of and Reactions to U.S. Air Operations - 22 December 1972 1965
NVN REFLECTIONS OF AND REACTIONS TO U.S. AIR OPERATIONS 20 DECEMBER 1972 1955.PDFNVN Reflections of and Reactions to U.S. Air Operations 20 December 1972 1955
NVN REFLECTIONS OF AND REACTIONS TO U.S. AIR OPERATIONS 20 DECEMBER 1972 1956.PDFNVN Reflections of and Reactions to U.S. Air Operations 20 December 1972 1956
NVN REFLECTIONS OF AND REACTIONS TO U.S. AIR OPERATIONS 20 DECEMBER 1972 1957.PDFNVN Reflections of and Reactions to U.S. Air Operations 20 December 1972 1957
NVN REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1848.PDFNVN Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1848
NVN REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1849.PDFNVN Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1849
NVN REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1850.PDFNVN Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1850
NVN REPORTED CAPTURE OF PRISONER 1871.PDFNVN Reported Capture of Prisoner 1871
NVN SAM BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1906.PDFNVN SAM Battalion Reports Shootdown 1906
NVN SAM COMMUNICATIONS ON 4 MAR 1715.PDFNVN SAM Communications on 4 Mar 1715
NVN SAM COMMUNICATIONS REFLECT PROBABLE CRASH OF F-111 CONVERSATIONS ON 17 OCTOBER 1939.PDFNVN SAM Communications Reflect Probable Crash of F-111 Conversations on 17 October 1939
NVN SAM REACTIONS TO HOSTILE AIR ACTIVITY OVER SOUTHERN NORTH VIETNAM, 17 FEBRUARY 1797.PDFNVN SAM Reactions to Hostile Air Activity Over Southern North Vietnam, 17 February 1797
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