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 NVA REGIMENTAL AUTHORITY REPORTS ON ENEMY AND ALLIED ACTIVITY 1303.PDFUnidentified NVA Regimental Authority Reports on Enemy and Allied Activity 1303
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REGIMENT AUTHORITY REPORTS OF AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWN AND STATUS OF PILOT 1303.PDFUnidentified NVA Regiment Authority Reports of Aircraft Shootdown and Status of Pilot 1303
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICES ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1561.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Services Element Operating in Laos Reports Shootdown of C-130 1530
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICES ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF C-130 1530.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Services Element Operating in Laos Reports Shootdown of C-130 1530
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICES ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS POSSIBLE SHOOTDOWN 1600.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Services Element Operating in Laos Reports Possible Shootdown 1600
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICES ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS ON SEARCH FOR DOWNED AMERICAN PILOT 1734.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Services Element Operating in Laos Reports on Search for Downed American Pilot 1734
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICES ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS COMMUNICATIONS DIFFICULTIES 1535.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Services Element Operating in Laos Reports Communications Difficulties 1535
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICES ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS COMMUNICATIONS DIFFICULTIES 1534.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Services Element Operating in Laos Reports Communications Difficulties 1534
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT REPORTS AIRCRAFT SHOOTDOWN 1530.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Reports Aircraft Shootdown 1530
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATION IN LAOS REPORTS CONCERNING A SHOOTDOWN 1384.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Operation in Laos Reports Concerning a Shootdown 1384
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REVEALS AMERICAN PRISONERS 1587.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Reveals American Prisoners 1587
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REVEALS AMERICAN PRISONERS 1586.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Reveals American Prisoners 1586
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1546.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Reports Shootdown 1546
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1543.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Reports Shootdown 1543
UNIDENTIFIED NVA REAR SERVICE ELEMENT OPERATING IN LAOS REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1437.PDFUnidentified NVA Rear Service Element Operating in Laos Reports Shootdown 1437
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