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 REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS AND PILOT CAPTURES, FOLLOW-UP NR THREE AND FINAL 1958.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdowns and Pilot Captures, Follow-Up Nr Three and Final 1958
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS AND PILOT CAPTURES, FOLLOW-UP NR THREE AND FINAL 1953.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdowns and Pilot Captures, Follow-Up Nr Three and Final 1953
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS AND PILOT CAPTURES, FOLLOW-UP NR THREE AND FINAL 1952.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdowns and Pilot Captures, Follow-Up Nr Three and Final 1952
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS 1704.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdowns 1704
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWNS 1702.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdowns 1702
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF HELICOPTER 1729.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdown of Helicopter 1729
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1771.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Shootdown 1771
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS SEARCHING FOR ESCAPED PRISONERS 1734.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Searching for Escaped Prisoners 1734
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS ON ANNIHILATION OF TROOPS, AND CAPTURING OF HELICOPTERS 1731.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports on Annihilation of Troops, and Capturing of Helicopters 1731
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS CAPTURE OF DOWNED ALLIED AIRCRAFT CREW MEMBERS 1956.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Capture of Downed Allied Aircraft Crew Members 1956
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS CAPTURE OF DOWNED ALLIED AIRCRAFT CREW MEMBERS 1955.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Reports Capture of Downed Allied Aircraft Crew Members 1955
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS ISSUES SITUATION REPORT 1403.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Issues Situation Report 1403
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS ISSUES REPORT OF AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWN 1573.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Issues Report of Aircraft Shootdown 1573
UNIDENTIFIED REAR SERVICE ELEMENT IN LAOS REPORTS 14 JUNE F-4 SHOOTDOWN 1455.PDFUnidentified Rear Service Element in Laos Reports 14 June F-4 Shootdown 1455
Unidentified Quang Ngai Provincial Unit Associate Reports on Recent Activity (12/06/1970)Unidentified Quang Ngai Provincial Unit Associate Reports on Recent Activity (12/06/1970)
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