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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 PATHET LAO REPORT AMERICAN RB66 AIRCRAFT DOWN IN LAOS 0802.PDFPathet Lao Report American RB66 Aircraft Down in Laos 0802
 PATHET LAO REPORT AMERICANS KILLED AND AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1298.PDFPathet Lao Report Americans Killed and American Aircraft Downed in Laos 1298
 PATHET LAO REPORT AMERICANS KILLED AND AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1299.PDFPathet Lao Report Americans Killed and American Aircraft Downed in Laos 1299
 PATHET LAO REPORT AMERICANS KILLED AND AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1303.PDFPathet Lao Report Americans Killed and American Aircraft Downed in Laos 1303
 PATHET LAO REPORT DOWNED F-104 PILOT NOT FOUND 0412.PDFPathet Lao Report Downed F-104 Pilot Not Found 0412
 PATHET LAO REPORT DOWNED F-104 PILOT NOT FOUND 0413.PDFPathet Lao Report Downed F-104 Pilot Not Found 0413
 PATHET LAO REPORT DOWNING U.S. AIRCRAFT IN LAOS 1330.PDFPathet Lao Report Downing U.S. Aircraft in Laos 1330
 PATHET LAO REPORT IN U.S. AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1325.PDFPathet Lao Report in U.S. Aircraft Downed in Laos 1325
 PATHET LAO REPORT IN U.S. AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1333.PDFPathet Lao Report in U.S. Aircraft Downed in Laos 1333
 PATHET LAO REPORT ON AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1336.PDFPathet Lao Report on American Aircraft Downed in Laos 1336
 PATHET LAO REPORT ON AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN LAOS 1536.PDFPathet Lao Report on American Aircraft Downed in Laos 1536
 PATHET LAO REPORT ON CAPTURED AMERICAN PILOT 0884.PDFPathet Lao Report on Captured American Pilot 0884
 PATHET LAO REPORT THREE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT DOWNED IN 17 MARCH ATTACK ON SAM NEUA 1089.PDFPathet Lao Report Three American Aircraft Downed in 17 March Attack on Sam Neua 1089
 PATHET LAO REPORT TWO AMERICAN JET AIRCRAFT SHOTDOWN 0498.PDFPathet Lao Report Two American Jet Aircraft Shotdown 0498
 PAVN 29TH REGIMENT POSSIBLY INVOLVED IN LANG VDI ACTIVITY 1040.PDFPAVN 29th Regiment Possibly Involved in Lang Vdi Activity 1040
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