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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UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS LAUNCHES 1931.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Launches 1931
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS LAUNCH PARAMETERS 1930 (1).PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Launch Parameters 1930
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION REPORTS LAUNCH PARAMETERS 1930.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Reports Launch Parameters 1930
UNIDENTIFIED SAM BATTALION DISCUSSES LAUNCH PARAMETERS 1939.PDFUnidentified SAM Battalion Discusses Launch Parameters 1939
UNIDENTIFIED RSE REPORT SHOOTDOWN OF ALLIED AIRCRAFT 1860.PDFUnidentified RSE Report Shootdown of Allied Aircraft 1860
UNIDENTIFIED RSE ISSUES SHOOTDOWN REPORT SUMMARY 1945.PDFUnidentified RSE Issues Shootdown Report Summary 1945
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES UNIT ISSUES INSTRUCTION CONCERNING ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE PILOT 1347.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Unit Issues Instruction Concerning Attempts to Capture Pilot 1347
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN, CHANGE ONE 1724.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element Reports Shootdown, Change One 1724
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AIRCRAFT 1750.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element Reports Shootdown of Aircraft 1750
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN AND CAPTURE 1724.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element Reports Shootdown and Capture 1724
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1724.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element Reports Shootdown 1724
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT REPORTS ON SEARCH FOR AMERICAN PILOT 1734.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element Reports on Search for American Pilot 1734
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT REPORTS AIR ACTIVITY 1750.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element Reports Air Activity 1750
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT IN LAOS SENDS REPORT OF SHOT DOWN PLANE 1576.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element in Laos Sends Report of Shot Down Plane 1576
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICES ELEMENT IN LAOS SENDS REPORT OF SHOT DOWN PLANE 1573.PDFUnidentified Rear Services Element in Laos Sends Report of Shot Down Plane 1573
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