The 650th Military Intelligence Group was originally constituted as the 450th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment on 12 July 1944 and activated on 20 August 1944 in New Guinea. Disbanded on 22 July 1945 just weeks before the Japanese surrender in early September, the unit still took part in two Pacific Theater campaigns (New Guinea and Luzon) and was awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. It was reconstituted in the Army Reserve (Organized Reserve Corps at the time) as the 450th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment and activated in Puerto Rico on 1 May 1948, but it was quickly inactivated in August 1949 and withdrawn from the Organized Reserve Corps; it was allotted to the Regular Army in January 1951.
Redesignated as the 450th Intelligence Corps Detachment on 25 July 1961, it would finally receive its current numerical designation five years laters in October 1966 as the 650th Military Intelligence Detachment. It became the 650th Military Intelligence Group on 20 July 1970. Today, it is a theater-level United States Army intelligence that is part of Allied Command Europe (ACE) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It is tasked with providing counterintelligence operations support to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), its subordinate commands and activities, and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).
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