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902d Military Intelligence Group's 75th Anniversary

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command

Oct. 26, 2019 | 12:07

The 902d MI Group has a long and proud history in the U.S. Army. The unit was constituted as the 902d Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Detachment and activated on Nov. 23, 1944, at Hollandia, New Guinea. While the unit arrived too late to participate in the capture of New Guinea, the detachment would see combat as part of Douglas MacArthur's Philippine invasion force. It was one of 29 CIC Detachments to serve in the Pacific theater.

The 902d CIC Detachment was inactivated at the end of World War II and re-activated in January 1952, at the now defunct, Fort Holabird, Maryland, to give the Department of the Army’s assistant chief of staff for intelligence an organization to handle the most sensitive counterintelligence cases worldwide. After many years and several name changes, “The Deuce” was re-designated as the 902d Military Intelligence Group in October 1966. In July 1974, the group relocated from Fort Holabird to its current location at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.

Today, the 902d MI Group is the largest counterintelligence organization in the Department of Defense and a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Its mission is to conduct proactive counterintelligence activities to detect, identify, assess and counter, neutralize or exploit foreign intelligence entities and insider threats in order to protect the Army and designated Department of Defense forces, information, and technologies.