REPORTED POW CAMP, SON TAY, NORTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: NORTH VIETNAM
• Keywords: POW
• Keywords: SON TAY
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001437705
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2009
• Case Number: F-2007-01204
• Publication Date: October 22, 1969

APPROVED FOR
RELEASE^DATE:
14-Jul-2009 ' ? '
lAS - 406/69
,22 nor 1969
MEI?'OPJ\UDUM FOR: Chief, Special Operations Div-islon, MDR"
SUBJECT Reported FO`:i Carp, Son TG,y, Nlorth V 1 Gtnara
REFERENCES (a)
(b) j,tIA/lAS Project No. 050+65-
(c) DOD I516-0637--G9'i,
1. This rcr,orerdu:t i s I n continuing response To fihe ebov, re f~ rcncc ,-,
requ l rerrcnt dated 3 January 109 concerning the identification of i nsto l
In Southeast Asia which may contain American POW's. Cood quality photc~rtr a,.h,
has been studied to confirm or deny the presence of a ro portocs F ; i nst;a I I ; t l can
near tho city of Son Tay, North Vietnam (052073). Accorcdlnq to 14fercrice c
this installation contained American F::' , in February 1907,
2. A walled compound with a guard tower does exist at the site clr~ ,cr l~ ac
within Reference c, although the source's description of the ca!:-.p Is
particularly poor. The actual number and pluce^ent of buildings and c;u nrU
towors end the overa I I size of tho I nsta I I at ion as seen on photography, rc,
at odds with the source's dcscripticn. Despite these discrepancies, the
source has located an installation which Is probably a prison camp. Wo
cannot doternine from photography vhothor or not irierlcan IJ;,'s are hold
3. Photography shc?':ws that a proba}blei prison CCr
1s located in the western half of a military compound of 0519M, appro