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_1558.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast SIGINT Summary, Section One of Four (1636) (2020)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE OF FOUR (1636) 6.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast SIGINT Summary, Section One of Four (1636) (2038)
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOUTHEAST SIGINT SUMMARY, SECTION ONE OF FOUR (1636) 1996.PDFNational Security Agency Southeast SIGINT Summary, Section One of Four (1636) 1996
NEW FRONT ENTITY NOTED IN DESCRIPTION OF FRYETT'S RELEASE.PDFNew Front Entity Noted in Description of Fryett's Release 0009
NEWS INTEREST IN CAPTURED AMERICAN PILOTS 0792.PDFNews Interest in Captured American Pilots 0792
NEWS INTEREST IN CAPTURED AMERICAN PILOTS 1194.PDFNews Interest in Captured American Pilots 1194
NGHIA LO REPORTS CAPTURE OF TWO AMERICAN PILOTS 0941.PDFNghia Lo Reports Capture of Two American Pilots 0941
NHAN DAN CORRESPONDENT REPORTS ON CAPTURE OF U.S. PILOT IN QUANG BINH PROVINCE 1830.PDFNhan Dan Correspondent Reports on Capture of U.S. Pilot in Quang Binh Province 1830
NLHX BALKS ON FREEING AMERICAN AIRMEN 0018.PDFNLHX Balks on Freeing American Airmen 0018
DOC_1584.PDFNLHX Press/Propaganda Facility Report/American Radar Site at Pha Thi, Laos Overrun (2052)
DOC_15 03301962.PDFNlisted Man as "Prisoner of War" (03/30/1962)
NLISTED MAN AS PRISONER OF WAR.PDFNlisted Man as "Prisoner of War" 0009
NLISTED MAN AS PRISONER OF WAR 0010.PDFNlisted Man as "Prisoner of War" 0010
NO FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. HELICOPTER 1552.PDFNo Further Information Concerning Shootdown of U.S. Helicopter 1552
NO FURTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING SHOOTDOWN OF U.S. HELICOPTER 1553.PDFNo Further Information Concerning Shootdown of U.S. Helicopter 1553
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