National Security Agency
NSA records on the Pentagon's 1992 search for missing Cold War reconnaissance aircrews
Correspondence · written 1992 · released 9 October 2026
Why this matters
Records released by the NSA in September 2025 and published in October 2026, detailing a 1992 Pentagon effort to work out whether crews of shot-down Cold War reconnaissance flights had been captured by the Soviet Union, China or others. They show how signals intelligence archives were searched for evidence of survivors after the Soviet collapse.
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Cold War Signals Intelligence
After 1991, SIGINT archives were searched for evidence of captured reconnaissance crews.
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National Security Agency. "NSA records on the Pentagon's 1992 search for missing Cold War reconnaissance aircrews." 1992. Released 9 October 2026. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/nsa-foia-records-detail-pentagons-1992-search-for-answers-on-missing-cold-war-aircrews/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0137).
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