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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POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO HOSTILE AIRCRAFT BY DRV SAMS, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0511.PDFPossible Shootdown of Two Hostile Aircraft by DRV SAMs, Follow Up Nr One 0511
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO HOSTILE AIRCRAFT BY DRV SAMS, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0512.PDFPossible Shootdown of Two Hostile Aircraft by DRV SAMs, Follow Up Nr One 0512
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO HOSTILE AIRCRAFT BY DRV SAMS, FOLLOW UP NR TWO 0511.PDFPossible Shootdown of Two Hostile Aircraft by DRV SAMs, Follow Up Nr Two 0511
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO HOSTILE AIRCRAFT BY DRV SAMS, FOLLOW UP NR TWO 0512.PDFPossible Shootdown of Two Hostile Aircraft by DRV SAMs, Follow Up Nr Two 0512
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO U.S. STRIKE AIRCRAFT 0127.PDFPossible Shootdown of Two U.S. Strike Aircraft 0127
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF TWO U.S. STRIKE AIRCRAFT 0128.PDFPossible Shootdown of Two U.S. Strike Aircraft 0128
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 0213.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft 0213
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 0215.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft 0215
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT 0216.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft 0216
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT BY NVN SAM ELEMENT 1830.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft by NVN SAM Element 1830
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN DRV, 26 MAY 1966 0346.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in DRV, 26 May 1966 0346
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN DRV, 26 MAY 1966, FOLLOW UP NR 1 0346.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in DRV, 26 May 1966, Follow Up Nr 1 0346
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN VINH LINH AREA 0201.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Vinh Linh Area 0201
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN VINH LINH AREA 0202.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Vinh Linh Area 0202
POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. AIRCRAFT IN VINH LINH AREA 0206.PDFPossible Shootdown of U.S. Aircraft in Vinh Linh Area 0206
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