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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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1961.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1961
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1962.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1962
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1963.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1963
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1964.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1964
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1965.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1965
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1966.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1966
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1967.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1967
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1968.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1968
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1969.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1969
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1987.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1987
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One 1996
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE AND THREE 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One and Three 1996
DOC_1573.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One of Seven (1613) (2050)
DOC_1544.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One of Three (1640) (2020)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST ASIA SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE OF THREE (1640) 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast Asia SIGINT Summary, Section One of Three (1640) 1996
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