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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DOC_1549.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One (1622) (2020)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE (1622) 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One (1622) 1996
DOC_1561.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One (2020)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 9.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One (2038)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE (2049).PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One (2049)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1228.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1228
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1952.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1952
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1953.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1953
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1954.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1954
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1955.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1955
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1956.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1956
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1957.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1957
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1958.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1958
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1959.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1959
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1960.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1960
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