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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 AMERICAN JET AIRCRAFT DOWNED OVER LAOS 0457.PDFAmerican Jet Aircraft Downed Over Laos 0457
 AMERICAN MILITARY ATTACHE CAPTURED IN LAOS HAS RANK OF MAJOR.PDFAmerican Military Attache Captured in Laos has Rank of Major 0003
 AMERICAN MILITARY ATTACHE CAPTURED IN LAOS HAS RANK OF MAJOR 0004.PDFAmerican Military Attache Captured in Laos has Rank of Major 0004
 American OV-10 Aircraft Crashes in Oddar Mean Chey MSD on 11 October 1970 (10/11/1970)American OV-10 Aircraft Crashes in Oddar Mean Chey MSD on 11 October 1970 (10/11/1970)
 AMERICAN PILOT CAPTURED BY CAMBODIAN IN MILITARY REGION ONE 1380.PDFAmerican Pilot Captured by Cambodian in Military Region One 1380
 AMERICAN PILOT CAPTURED BY CAMBODIAN IN MILITARY REGION ONE 1381.PDFAmerican Pilot Captured by Cambodian in Military Region One 1381
 AMERICAN PILOT CAPTURED IN HA TINH PROVINCE 0129.PDFAmerican Pilot Captured in Ha Tinh Province 0129
 AMERICAN PILOT CAPTURED POSSIBLY NORTHWEST OF HANOI 1851.PDFAmerican Pilot Captured Possibly Northwest of Hanoi 1851
 AMERICAN PILOT SHOT DOWN IN LAOS, FOLLOW UP NR ONE 0498.PDFAmerican Pilot Shot Down in Laos, Follow Up Nr One 0498
 AMERICAN PILOT'S CORPSE TO BE SENT TO KHANG KHAY BY THE DEUANISTS 0498.PDFAmerican Pilot's Corpse to be Sent to Khang Khay by the Deuanists 0498
 AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 0932 (1).PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 0932
 AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 0932.PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 0932
 AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 0966 (1).PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 0966
 AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 0966.PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 0966
 AMERICAN POWS MENTIONED IN LNA CORRESPONDENCE 1042 (1).PDFAmerican POWs Mentioned in LNA Correspondence 1042
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