Korean War 1950-1953
Cold War Era 1945-1991

Most Requested Documents and Reports for The Korean War and Cold War Era

Most Requested Documents and Reports for The Korean War and Cold War Era

Korean War POW-MIA List from DPMO - 8,051 names of unaccounted-for Korean War POWs and MIAs - As of June 2009
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Korean War POW-MIA List - 8,200 names of unaccounted-for Korean War POWs and MIAs
Korean War Casualty/POW/MIA List - 33,492 names of All Korean War Combat Casualties Including POWs and MIAs
Cold War List - 165 names of unaccounted-for Cold War POWs and MIAs
Cold War List - 14 Official loss incidents
Cold War List - Summary of 14 Loss Incidents, 165 Personnel and By-Service Totals



Korean War Armistice 27 July, 1953
- Agreement between the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, on the one hand, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the Commander of the Chinese People's volunteers, on the other hand, concerning a military armistice in Korea.


Communist Treatment of Prisoners of War - 1972 United States Senate - Complete Hearing Transcript - PDF Download



Korean War Atrocities - Senate Report 1954 - with Images

Korean War Atrocities - 1953 December Hearings
Part 1, December 2, 1953
86 Pages - PDF Download

PART 2, December 3, 1953
81 Pages - PDF Download

Part 3, December 4, 1953
91 Pages - PDF Download

Studies in Intelligence - Vol 50, No. 1, 2006
Two CIA Prisoners in China, 1952-1973 (U)
Downey & Fecteau - 19 Pages PDF Download

American POW/MIAs in North Korean Hands & Questions Pyongyang Must Answer

Korea-Cold War Families of the Missing & National Alliance of Families - Press Release



Status Definitions - Official status definitions as used by the USG
Code of Conduct - An In-Depth Study
Korean War Name Search Database - offsite interactive database
Acronyms - Glossary Used in POW-MIA Accounting Efforts
OdontoSearch - Identification of Remains
Central ID Lab Feasibility Study - June 2009

Testimony:
Russian Summit Remarks - House Armed Services Committee :: July 2009
Military Personnel Subcommittee - Hearings on POWs and MIAs also known as the Dornan Hearings
Senate Select Committee Report - Entire report and testimony also known as the SSC Hearings
Air Force Request - Korean War-Cold War Family Member Contact
Army Request - Korean War Family Members
DPMO Request - Camp DeSoto
USMC Request - Korean War Family Members Only

Reports and Documents:
15th Plenum Report - US-Russian Joint Commission Report 1998
16th Plenum Report - US-Russian Joint Commission Report 1999
17th Plenum Report - US-Russian Joint Commission Report 2000
18th Plenary Session Minutes - US-Russian Joint Commission JCSD 2002
19th Plenum Report - US-Russian Joint Commission JCSD 2005
1992-1996 Findings - Cold War Working Group
"77 Page Report" - Transfer of U.S. Korean War POWs To the Soviet Union
A Cold War Cover-Up - 3 Cape Cod Disappearance and the 8 Unacknowledged MIAs
Air Intel Report - 137 USAF Personnel Possibly Alive in Communist Captivity
America's POW Secrets Exposed - by William Hoar
Blood Chits - History of the use of blood chits and promised rewards
Brooks Memorandum - Another devastating document on POW-MIA accounting
Cold War Shootdowns - Official (and erroneous) document from the Congressional Research Service
Cold War Shootdown - Cable Traffic
Cold War Working Group - 1992 - 1996 Report
DOD Briefing on Remains - August 1997
DoD/DPMO Policies on POWs and MIAs
DoD Korean War Briefing - Alan Liotta Conference
DoD Korean War Briefing - Alan Liotta Conference 2
DPMO Annual Report - Accounting issues of 1996
DPMO Annual Report - Accounting issues of 1998
DPMO Annual Report - Accounting issues of 2000
DPMO Website - Official site of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office
Examination of US Policy Toward POWs and MIAs - Official 1991 Report
Francis Gary Powers - The U2, US and USSR Incident 1960
Gaines Report - Director'S PW/MIA Task Force Report 1986
Geneva Convention Relative To The Treatment of POWs and MIAs
Gulag Study Joint Commission  on POW/MIAs - Russia
Gulag Study - 2001 - 2005 - 5 Versions Intro
Gulag Study - #1 April 2001
Gulag Study - #2 June 2001
Gulag Study - #3 November 2001
Gulag Study - #4 June 2002
Gulag Study - #5 February 2005
Gulag Study - #5 February 2005 COMPLETE PDF
Gulag Study -"Memoirs" Hidden Gulag US Committee on Human Rights in North Korea 2003
Highlights of Minority Staff Examination of POW/MIA Policy
JCSD - 2003 Moscow Meetings
Johnnie Johnson - Tiger Survivor POW List
Korean War - Remains Not Recovered & POWs 15 SEP 02
Korean War Unknowns - Punch Bowl Unidentified
Malfeasance in the Search For POWs - Joseph Douglass
Meeting of Commissioners - Cold War Working Group April 2003
Minutes of the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs - January 2003
Missing American Servicemen Sacrificed - by Joe Douglass
Missing Man Formation - History of the aerial maneuver
Peck Resignation Letter - Mike Peck blows the lid off of POW-MIA aaccounting efforts
POW-MIA Ceremony - 1
POW-MIA Ceremony -2
POW-MIA Flag - History of the official flag and logo
POW-MIA Issues - Summary of official 3 volume report by Dr. Paul Cole
POW-MIA Issues, Volume I Pt.1 by Dr. Paul Cole
POW-MIA Issues, Volume I Pt.2 by Dr. Paul Cole
POW-MIA Issues, Volume I Pt.3 by Dr. Paul Cole
POW-MIA Medal - History of the medal
POW/MIA Research Project - by Dr. Paul Cole
POWs and Medical Experimentation - by Jospeh Douglass
Punch Bowl - DPMO White Paper 2001
Reassessing Jackson-Vanik - CFR Paper
Russian Memoirs Summary
Sacrificed to Secrecy - Unacknowledged Cold War MIAs SNIE 14.3-87 - Hanoi and the POW/MIA Issue
SNIE Assessment - Debunking by DOD
SNIE -The Heavily Redacted SNIE Report - 1998
Special Report - The US, North Korea and USSR
Status and Accounting Issues Report - Official report prepared for Congress 1996
Strange Happenings - New and improived versions of quarrelsome documents
Taiwan Straits Crisis 1958 - Why Are These 4 Cold War MIAs Unacknowledged
Task Force Russia Documents Database - Interactive Database of Documents Pertaining To POWs and MIAs in the Former USSR
Testimony of Colonel Philip Corso
Testimony of Donna Downes Knox
Testimony of Jan Sejna
The 21 Turncoat GIs: nonrepatriations and the political culture of the Korean War
The Effort To Account For U.S. Servicemen Missing From The Korean War
Tiger Survivor - Johnnie Johnson POW List
Tighe Report - Devasting report on official efforts to account for POWs and MIAs
Transfer of U.S. Korean War POWs To the Soviet Union - also known as the '77 Page' Report
Truth and Lies Cold War : Navy P4M crew of 16 shot down by Chinese fighters off the Chinese coast near Wenchow
Unreported G.I.'s In Siberia by Zygmunt Nagorski 1953
The U-2 Program: A Russian Officer Remembers by Alexander Orlov
USAF Personnel Possibly Alive in Communist Captivity
US-Russia Joint Commission Report - 1999
U.S.- Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs 2001
U.S.-Russia Joint Commission - Cold War Working Group September 2002 *
Offsite POW-MIA Related Research Links
•Korean War 50th Anniversary Commemorative Site - Official Pentagon Site
•Coalition Of Families of Korean/Cold War POWs and MIAs - offsite