Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 intel locations guide

With skyscrapers exploding, civilians in constant danger, and every single vehicle you enter being almost immediately overturned, you might miss some of the 46 pieces of intel scattered throughout Modern Warfare 3’s cinematic campaign. Fortunately for you, we guides writers have grown numb to any and all emotional stimuli developers can think up, allowing us to quickly and efficiently chronicle collectibles like sexy gaming robots. Read words. Watch videos. Win game.

ACT 1

Black Tuesday (5 intel items)

1. Inside the apartment building, check to the right of the crashed helicopter to find a bedroom.  The intel is at the foot of the bed.

2. Descend the steps leading into the store, then turn around and look for a piece of intel on a desk under the staircase.

3. As soon as you enter the lobby of the stock exchange, check the left side of the room.

4. On one of the circular desks in the southwest corner of exchange floor, near the steps leading up.

5. As soon as your objective is to plant a thermite charge on the jammer, look to the right side of the rooftop for a table with the intel on it.

Hunter Killer (2 intel items)

1. After taking out the first two hostiles found inside the sub, look for this piece of intel in the far right corner of the room on a bunk bed.

2. Once on the upper walkway, get to the southwestern corner. It’s the corner opposite of where you need to put a charge on the door.

Persona Non Grata (4 intel items)

1. As soon as you get down to the courtyard, look for a small alcove to you right, on the north end.

2. As you head down the street, look for an open house to your right before the street turns west. Inside one of the smaller room on an end table you’ll find the intel.

3. Soon after you go through the trapdoor to get to the UGV, look behind the huge shipping crate.

4. As soon as you’re done with the UGV and have to GET TO THE CHOPPER! (yessss), look for a playground slide to the left as you leave the building. 

Turbulence (2 intel items)

1. After the zero-g sequence, head down the stairs straight to the dead end and turn right. The intel is on the kitchen counter.

2. Fairly soon after the plane crashes you’ll come upon a fallen tree that you must leap over. As soon as you do, check the ground in front of you.

Back on the Grid (3 intel items)

1. After you jump down from your sniper perch to rally with your team, dash into the factory that they were searching. This intel is in the back corner.

2. At the point where you meet up with your team, the street turns to the left. Go down the street until you spot a hut on the left which can be entered. Inside on a crate

3. This piece of intel is on a table at the back of the church.

Mind the Gap (3 intel items)

1. Enter the building across from the locked door, turn left, and look for the intel on a crate.

2. Before (or after) opening the truck doors, run to the building to the northeast. You’ll find stairs leading up to a catwalk. Follow this path until you can enter the building and check the desk for some intel.

3. As soon as you get to the top of the first escalator, look for a newsstand in front of you. The intel is on the ground behind the counter. 

ACT 2

Goalpost (3 intel items)

1. As soon as you get to the street, look for a crashed plane to the north. The intel is in the cockpit.

2. When the street turns to the south, continue west and look behind a short brick wall in the southwest corner of the map.

3. After you find the convoy, you and your squad will enter another building. As soon as you do, check the cubicles on the right for the third intel item.

Return to Sender (3 intel items)

1. Soon after the first go at the remote chopper turret, look for a ladder to your left leading into the south building. The intel is on a desk on the second floor. 

2. Check the back left corner of the room that you breach.

3. Once the countdown begins and you’re rushing to the secondary LZ, look for a very small building on your right (the eastern edge of the map). The intel is on a table inside.

Bag and Drag (4 intel items)

1. On the second floor of the bookstore, check the windowsills on the western wall.

2. On a coffee table in the back-room lounge of the “Café de Paris.”

3. In the Catacombs, after you get hit with a flashbang, check the south end of the room before pursuing Volk.

4. Perhaps the easiest to find, this intel is stares you right in the face soon after you climb out of the catacombs, just before you head back onto the street.

Iron Lady (2 intel items)

1. After you snipe the machine gunner, drop into the courtyard and enter the greenhouse on your left. Ascend the staircase inside to find intel.

2. Right after you use the Javelin to take out the second tank, look for a bus on the left side of the bridge. The intel is inside. 

Eye of the Storm (2 intel items)

1. You’ll follow Soap into a hotel lobby and be told to wait. You can find intel on the counter.

2. As soon as stealth goes out the window, look for a table umbrella with the word “Prague” on it, just south of the statue.

Blood Brothers (1 intel item)

1. When Price picks up Soap, and tells you to cover them both, clear the room and check the far right corner for this chapter’s only intel.

ACT 3

Stronghold (2 intel items)

1. After you step outside, you’ll climb some stone steps and enter another room where several enemies will be waiting. You’ll know you’re in the right spot when Price says “don’t slow down now.” In the small corner room to the northwest you’ll find this intel.

2. Clear out the courtyard and follow Price up the steps to the second level. Head for the southernmost building to find this intel on a small crate.

Scorched Earth (5 intel items)

1. When you enter the building at the start of the chapter, go up the stairs and turn right. Clear the office of enemies, then check the first desk along the windows to your left.

2. After you destroy the tanks with the A-10 but before you rappel down the building, check the fence along the east side of the roof. There is a piece of intel on the other side, facing away from you, so it may be hard to spot.

3. After you rappel, head down the street towards your objective. You’ll notice a bookstore on your right. Enter the store and check the counter for this intel.

4. As soon as the friendly tanks roll in, turn right down the street and enter the first building on your left. The intel is inside.

5. Once the objective becomes “get to the roof” your squad mate will kick open a door leading to a stairwell. Check under the stairs on a couch for this intel.

Down the Rabbit Hole (2 intel items)

1. When you get to the large room with the high catwalks, look for an office on the left side. The intel is on a file cabinet in that office.

2. Right after you breach the room to rescue the president, turn around and round the corner to find intel on top of a barrel.

Dust to Dust (3 intel items)

1. After you reach the top of the escalator, turn around to your right and grab the intel from the bar.

2. Soon after you leave the elevator, follow Yuri into a small room on your left. The intel is on the poker table.

3. As soon as you enter the restaurant, at about the same time you spot Makarov, look on the bar to your right for the last piece of intel.