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 ELEMENT REVEALS SHOOTDOWN 1107.PDFUnidentified Element Reveals Shootdown 1107
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT REPORTS SHOOTDOWN OF AMERICAN AIRCRAFT 2 MAY 1969 1435.PDFUnidentified Element Reports Shootdown of American Aircraft 2 May 1969 1435
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT REPORTS ON SHOOTDOWNS 1573.PDFUnidentified Element Reports on Shootdowns 1573
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT REPORTS DOWNING ONE AIRCRAFT 1942.PDFUnidentified Element Reports Downing One Aircraft 1942
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT REPORTS DOWNING ONE AIRCRAFT 1940.PDFUnidentified Element Reports Downing One Aircraft 1940
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT QUANG BINH PROVINCIAL UNIT ISSUES A SHOOTDOWN REPORT 1796.PDFUnidentified Element Quang Binh Provincial Unit Issues a Shootdown Report 1796
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT POSSIBLY OF 14TH AAA BATTALION REPORTS SHOOTDOWN 1427.PDFUnidentified Element Possibly of 14th AAA Battalion Reports Shootdown 1427
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT POSSIBLY ASSOCIATED WITH BT-33 DISCUSSES DOWNED F-4 1543.PDFUnidentified Element Possibly Associated with BT-33 Discusses Downed F-4 1543
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF THE QUANG BINH PROVINCIAL UNIT ISSUES A SHOOTDOWN AND SITUATION REPORT 1798.PDFUnidentified Element of the Quang Binh Provincial Unit Issues a Shootdown and Situation Report 1798
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF THE QUANG BINH PROVINCIAL UNIT ISSUES A SHOOTDOWN AND SITUATION REPORT 1797.PDFUnidentified Element of the Quang Binh Provincial Unit Issues a Shootdown and Situation Report 1797
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF PROBABLE 14TH AAA BATTALION REPORTS PROBABLE SHOOTDOWN OF AN F-4 1544.PDFUnidentified Element of Probable 14th AAA Battalion Reports Probable Shootdown of an F-4 1544
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF BINH TRAM 33 REPORTS ON SEARCH FOR ESCAPED ENEMY 1734.PDFUnidentified Element of Binh Tram 33 Reports on Search for Escaped Enemy 1734
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF BINH TRAM 33 ISSUES SEARCH REPORT 1734.PDFUnidentified Element of Binh Tram 33 Issues Search Report 1734
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF BINH TRAM 18 ISSUES REPORT ON AIRPLANES SHOT DOWN 1792.PDFUnidentified Element of Binh Tram 18 Issues Report on Airplanes Shot Down 1792
UNIDENTIFIED ELEMENT OF 593RD AAA REGIMENT ISSUES AIR ACTIVITY REPORT 1807.PDFUnidentified Element of 593rd AAA Regiment Issues Air Activity Report 1807
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