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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 CAPTURE OF AMERICAN NCO IN PHU YEN PROVINCE REPORTED BY LNA 0010.PDFCapture of American NCO in Phu Yen Province Reported by LNA 0010
 CAPTURE OF AMERICAN PILOT ON 26 DECEMBER 1971 1789.PDFCapture of American Pilot on 26 December 1971 1789
 CAPTURE OF AMERICAN PILOT ON 26 DECEMBER 1971 1790.PDFCapture of American Pilot on 26 December 1971 1790
 Capture of Downed Allied Pilot, Follow-Up Nr One 1957Capture of Downed Allied Pilot, Follow-Up Nr One 1957
 CAPTURE OF TWO PILOTS BY UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 1816.PDFCapture of Two Pilots by Unidentified Element 1816
 CAPTURE OF TWO PILOTS BY UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT 1820.PDFCapture of Two Pilots by Unidentified Element 1820
 DOC_65.PDFCapture of U.S. Pilot (02/07/1965)
 CAPTURE OF U.S. PILOT 0240.PDFCapture of U.S. Pilot 0240
 CAPTURE OF U.S. PILOT 1841.PDFCapture of U.S. Pilot 1841
 CAPTURE OF U.S. PILOT BY UNIDENTIFIED NVA ELEMENTS 1811.PDFCapture of U.S. Pilot by Unidentified NVA Elements 1811
 CAPTURE OF U.S. PILOT BY UNIDENTIFIED NVA ELEMENTS 1813.PDFCapture of U.S. Pilot by Unidentified NVA Elements 1813
 DOC_6102071965.PDFCapture Pilot on 28 January 1966 (02/07/1965)
 Captured Air America Employee Released (12/24/1967)Captured Air America Employee Released (12/24/1967)
 CAPTURED U.S. VESSEL BROKEN DOWN ON MEKONG, FOLLOW-UP NR SIX 1228.PDFCaptured U.S. Vessel Broken Down on Mekong, Follow-Up Nr Six 1228
 CAPTURED VESSEL 1228.PDFCaptured Vessel 1228
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