Welcome to the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Intel locations guide that helps you find the total of 45 Enemy Intel locations for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One & PC first-person shooter game.
Finding all 45 Intel locations and picking them up will help unlock the following Achievements / Trophies:
* “History In the Making” (15 Gamerscore / Bronze Trophy) — Collect over half of the Intel.
* “Ferrum Absconsum” (30 Gamerscore / Silver Trophy) — Collect all the Intel.
The Timeline for all these in-game Intel locations is listed below.
Table of Contents
- Mission 1: Induction Intel Locations
- Mission 2: Atlas Intel Locations
- Mission 3: Traffic Intel Locations
- Mission 4: Fission Intel Locations
- Mission 5: Aftermath Intel Locations
- Mission 6: Manhunt Intel Locations
- Mission 7: Utopia Intel Locations
- Mission 8: Sentinel Intel Locations
- Mission 9: Crash Intel Locations
- Mission 10: Bio-Lab Intel Locations
- Mission 11: Collapse Intel Locations
- Mission 12: Armada Intel Locations
- Mission 13: Throttle Intel Locations
- Mission 14: Captured Intel Locations
- Mission 15: Terminus Intel Locations
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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Intel
How to find missing Intel?: In-game the Intel will appear simply as black thin laptops with their blue screen turned on, usually found on computer desks or tables, that you can pick up to collect when you stand next to it. It can be confirmed as being Intel simply by walking up to it, as the on-screen text will then tell you can press and hold the action button/key to “Secure Intel”.
At the which point the game will tell you that “1 of 45 pieces of enemy intel found”, a number that will indicate your progress as you collect more Enemy Intel pieces.
Does the game save each Intel you collect?: Yes, the game will automatically save the Intel you just collected if you picked up the Intel by 100% uploading the Enemy Intel. So you do not have to play to the end of the mission or even reach the next checkpoint to save your progress. After picking up each collectible you can safely “save and quit” the mission from the pause menu without losing collectibles progress.
Note: Collecting the Intel will go at a pace of exactly 3 Intel collectibles per mission. There are 15 missions in the single player campaign, making for a total of 45 Intel waiting to be found by you.
Tip: In Mission Select you can see how many Intel you have found in each mission. Since the Intel are not missable, you can search for the missing items at any point during or after completing the campaign’s storyline.
Where to find all Intel in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare? The in-game collectibles locations for the Enemy Intel are described with handy voice-over tips by Maka in this detailed video guide.
The Intel are listed in the video in the order that they appear chronologically.
Timeline in minutes for the Intel Locations Video Guide:
• [0:09] – 1 – Mission: Induction
• [0:32] – 2 – Mission: Induction
• [1:00] – 3 – Mission: Induction
• [1:22] – 4 – Mission: Atlas
• [1:42] – 5 – Mission: Atlas
• [2:02] – 6 – Mission: Atlas
• [2:18] – 7 – Mission: Traffic
• [2:37] – 8 – Mission: Traffic
• [2:54] – 9 – Mission: Traffic
• [3:14] – 10 – Mission: Fission
• [3:40] – 11 – Mission: Fission
• [4:00] – 12 – Mission: Fission
• [4:17] – 13 – Mission: Aftermath
• [4:38] – 14 – Mission: Aftermath
• [5:00] – 15 – Mission: Aftermath
• [5:20] – 16 – Mission: Manhunt
• [5:40] – 17 – Mission: Manhunt
• [6:09] – 18 – Mission: Manhunt
• [6:28] – 19 – Mission: Utopia
• [6:42] – 20 – Mission: Utopia
• [7:05] – 21 – Mission: Utopia
• [7:30] – 22 – Mission: Sentinel
• [7:53] – 23 – Mission: Sentinel
• [8:16] – 24 – Mission: Sentinel
• [8:33] – 25 – Mission: Crash
• [8:49] – 26 – Mission: Crash
• [9:13] – 27 – Mission: Crash
• [9:34] – 28 – Mission: Bio-Lab
• [9:52] – 29 – Mission: Bio-Lab
• [10:15] – 30 – Mission: Bio-Lab
• [10:45] – 31 – Mission: Collapse
• [11:10] – 32 – Mission: Collapse
• [11:44] – 33 – Mission: Collapse
• [12:07] – 34 – Mission: Armada
• [12:41] – 35 – Mission: Armada
• [13:22] – 36 – Mission: Armada
• [13:53] – 37 – Mission: Throttle
• [14:19] – 38 – Mission: Throttle
• [14:48] – 39 – Mission: Throttle
• [15:23] – 40 – Mission: Captured
• [15:42] – 41 – Mission: Captured
• [16:05] – 42 – Mission: Captured
• [16:22] – 43 – Mission: Terminus
• [16:57] – 44 – Mission: Terminus
• [17:41] – 45 – Mission: Terminus
Mission 1: Induction Intel Locations
• Intel Location #1
During This Objective: Regroup with Demo Team One.
Description: Inside the Building, go up the flight of stairs (to the second floor), turn right and go inside the dark restaurant area with the green lighted walls and the red lampoon lights on the ceiling. There it’s sitting on a restaurant table.
• Intel Location #2
During This Objective: Regroup with Demo Team One.
Description: During the lighted-district Korean shop fight area, you’ll have to make a left turn to head to objective. Go into the right side restaurant with a Bar, and head to the highest (third) floor where it’s on the floor next to rows of well-lit bottles.
• Intel Location #3
During This Objective: Pick up the Demo Charges.
Description: Once outside, get underneath the small waterfall; There’s metal bridge on the left side leading up to the entrance under it. There you’ll find a hidden room where it’s sitting on a table.
Mission 2: Atlas Intel Locations
• Intel Location #4
During This Objective: Rescue the President.
Description: During the rescue of POTUS, look inside his bedroom’s bathroom, where it’s on the sink.
• Intel Location #5
During This Objective: Follow Gideon. (The first time; after rescuing the President.)
Description: After leaving the jeep with Irons, turn around and go into the empty guard’s checkpoint hut. The right one of the two on either side of the road, next to the gate. Once inside, look on the right desk.
• Intel Location #6
During This Objective: Follow Gideon. (The third time; after completing grenade training.)
Description: Follow Gideon into Ready Room, then before going down into the elevator, head into the Engineering Room. The enemy intel is in there, sitting on a box, next to female and male personnel in blue jumpsuits.
Mission 3: Traffic Intel Locations
• Intel Location #7
During This Objective: Rescue the Prime Minister.
Description: After entering the glass offices building through a hole in the roof. Go and stick to the left walk-side until you walk into an office space. In the left corner of the office is a desk with the intel laptop on it, next to the copy-machine.
• Intel Location #8
During This Objective: Stop the KVA Hostage Truck.
Description: After jumping to next area to safety from the machine gun truck, from this courtyard area stick left, and go up the small stairs into a room with green soda & sandwich vending machines. It’s in front of them on the floor.
• Intel Location #9
During This Objective: Stop the KVA Hostage Truck.
Description: After flanking machine gun truck, look in the alleyway where the two soldiers are kneeling down on standby. The intel is behind one of the soldiers, sitting on the ground behind the stacked wooden crates.
Mission 4: Fission Intel Locations
• Intel Location #10
During This Objective: Shut down the Reactor.
Description: After coming down an elevator shaft and turning a few corners while following the yellow objective marker. It’s on the floor, in Vekron Lab 1, to the right side. You’ll have to shoot your way through the glass to get to it.
• Intel Location #11
During This Objective: Shut down the Reactor.
Description: After using the Drone to kill all the enemies, search the right side area. Stick to the right side and go underneath the second story with the stairs, and follow that dark corridor until you find the intel sitting atop a metal case (with soldiers running by if you haven’t taken them all out yet).
• Intel Location #12
During This Objective: Escape the Power Plant.
Description: During the escape of the Power Plant, when you past through this huge round blast door, go to the walkway on the right side. The intel is on the far end of the walkway.
Mission 5: Aftermath Intel Locations
• Intel Location #13
During This Objective: Regroup with Gideon.
Description: Regroup with Gideon after falling through some floors. Turn left after killing the first Hazmat enemy and going through the door. You’ll really have to look around to find it in the dark (hidden in a corner on the right side), but the brightly lit laptop screen should give you a good hint where it’s at.
• Intel Location #14
During This Objective: Reach the Hospital.
Description: After meeting back up with Gideon and seeing a two-man patrol in yellow Hazmat suits pass by. It’s in the far back of the first trailer on the left (which has the big “WARNING” sign next to its entrance).
• Intel Location #15
During This Objective: Capture the Doctor.
Description: After using a flashbang on some Hazmat enemies (after the ambulance push scene), hug the left perimeter and follow it until you get to the Intel. You’ll need to shoot through the glass first to get to the room it’s in.
Mission 6: Manhunt Intel Locations
• Intel Location #16
During This Objective: Infiltrate the Safehouse.
Description: Before or after you’re asked to suit up in the Safehouse, go out on the balcony with Ilona, and look to your right to find it on a wooden bench.
• Intel Location #17
During This Objective: Intercept Hades’ Convoy.
Description: Enter the brown building through the back and take the stairs to the 2nd floor. In the bedroom with the two balcony’s it’s near the ammo resupply, next to the bed.
• Intel Location #18
During This Objective: Eliminate the KVA Sniper.
Description: After the talk about a Stinger, and where you’ll be targeted by a sniper, go into the jewelry store building in front of you (behind the white van with the orange stripe). Look for the lit “SANTORINI” digital sign inside and go inside that building, where it’s on the counter.
Mission 7: Utopia Intel Locations
• Intel Location #19
During This Objective: Follow Gideon. (Very start of the mission.)
Description: Inside the Atlas Building, at the front desk. It’s right there on the desk behind you as you spawn. – Important: It can be missed if you don’t directly turn around and walk to the front desk after you spawn at the start of the mission.
• Intel Location #20
During This Objective: Reach the docks. (After following Ilona.)
Description: At the red, green and/or white motorcycle(s) in the alleyway with wooden scaffolding, head left inside the building. The building looks normal from the outside, but is actually an internet cafe with lots of computers and the intel laptop is in the middle of it all.
• Intel Location #21
During This Objective: Reach the Extraction Point. (After escaping in the Dive Boat.)
Description: In rooftop area (after Dive Boat sequence) look for the empty swimming pool with 3 big rolls of blue construction material next to it, behind that there is a glass window with a broken corner that you can shoot to break, since on the floor behind the glass window is the intel.
Mission 8: Sentinel Intel Locations
• Intel Location #22
During This Objective: Access the Security System. (After infiltrating the Estate.)
Description: Access the Security System by blasting the EMP on the roof. Once you first get inside, look on the desk to your left. – Note: You’ll need to pick it up quickly or you’ll fail your mission (if you’re not replaying it).
• Intel Location #23
During This Objective: Search the Database. (After regrouping with Cormack.)
Description: From the rooftop you can access a circular room where (as you enter) Cormack takes out an enemy soldier with his grappling-hook. Keep walking inside to find the intel in front of the bookshelves on a seating area.
• Intel Location #24
During This Objective: Record the Meeting. (After infiltrating the Hangar.)
Description: In the warehouse area with Irons’ meeting. Before following your team up the scaffolding in the Hangar, take a look at your left to see a mechanic working on car machinery with orange sparks flying all over the place. Crouch to pass under the scaffolding in front of him to find the intel laptop.
Mission 9: Crash Intel Locations
• Intel Location #25
During This Objective: Reach the Cargo. (After planting the charge.)
Description: Hidden between some crates at the beginning. Look left of the burning crashed plane.
• Intel Location #26
During This Objective: Follow Cormack.
Description: As you follow Cormack and make your way through some caves, you’ll end up in one cave with a bright light at the end. Look for a rocky icy ledge on the right side there to see an enemy soldier jump on said icy ledge. There you’ll find the piece of enemy intel lying on the ground. – Tip: You’ll need to both double-jump and then sprint-dash (press the sprint button while in the air) to be able to reach the icy ledge.
• Intel Location #27
During This Objective: Recover the cargo.
Description: Near the end of the mission you’ll be asked to recover a stinger missile on the opposite side of plane wreck. As you walk up to it, look behind it towards the cockpit of the crashed airplane to find the intel lying in the snow.
Mission 10: Bio-Lab Intel Locations
• Intel Location #28
During This Objective: Escape the Sniper.
Description: The intel appears within the first few seconds after you start the mission. It’s inside the hut where you take cover from a sniper in a helicopter.
• Intel Location #29
During This Objective: Neutralize the Manticore Supply.
Description: “Flank the right!” In the “Main Compound, Synthesis” hallway, go into room 210. Follow the hallway to the right until you reach a computer lab with the intel in it.
• Intel Location #30
During This Objective: Locate the Tank.
Description: Near the end of the mission, pass through the white hallways, into the outside area. After covering your teammate, go to the next area in a red-lighted room. In the red room break the glass and crawl through the hole in the windows into the central area with the intel laptop.
Mission 11: Collapse Intel Locations
• Intel Location #31
During This Objective: Regroup with Sentinel. (After intercepting the Van.)
Description: Around 373 meters from your next target on the bridge. In the black car in the middle of road with license plate “MRA0112”, the intel is on the passenger seat.
• Intel Location #32
During This Objective: Regroup with Sentinel. (Even further after intercepting the Van.)
Description: Around 150 meters from your next target on the bridge. Up high behind the Black & Orange Highway Sign with estimated traffic times (in minutes) on it for Downtown SF, SFO & Oakland. – Tip: From on top of a nearby car, you’ll need to both double-jump and then sprint-dash (press the sprint button while in the air) forward to be able to reach the metal platform the intel lies on; at the back of the Highway Sign.
• Intel Location #33
During This Objective: Near the end of the mission.
Description: Around 45 meters from your next target on the bridge. On the left side walkway (the bike lane) of the bridge you’re walking on near the end of the mission. The intel is on the passenger bed of a mini-transporter vehicle, which itself is near the helicopter that landed on the bridge.
Mission 12: Armada Intel Locations
• Intel Location #34
During This Objective: Reach the Bridge. (After planting the Jammers on the Railguns.)
Description: After getting on the Armada ship, look to the left consoles. You can enter that area with the intel laptop through a big hole that’s still smothering with fire on the ship’s control tower side. Double jump to get in there, as you’ll need to go through there anyway as part of the mission to reach the ship’s bridge.
• Intel Location #35
During This Objective: Reach the Bridge. (Further after planting the Jammers on the Railguns.)
Description: Once you’re on the 2nd floor railing, just about to reach the bridge. Stay on right side of catwalk, and inside the first room it’s on the right.
• Intel Location #36
During This Objective: Destroy Cargo Ships.
Description: After reaching the ship’s bridge, but before getting on the terminal, look on the island table in the middle to find the intel.
Mission 13: Throttle Intel Locations
• Intel Location #37
During This Objective: Follow Gideon. (After reaching New Baghdad.)
Description: At the start of the mission after landing and going on foot, go towards the red Iraqi Financial District sign. Then follow along to the right to the port’s end, to find the Intel on a bench next to an Iraqi male fashion model billboard.
• Intel Location #38
During This Objective: Follow Gideon. (Further after reaching New Baghdad.)
Description: Before you destroy the 3 MD Turrets, go to the right side, and grapple up the building twice to reach the rooftop with chairs & tables above the makeshift tent.
• Intel Location #39
During This Objective: Destroy the MD Turrets (x3).
Description: Once inside main city area, go left. Jump on top of the monorail train tracks and then walk away from the 3 turrets (the objective) and grapple onto the left building structure (you’re now on the third story). Follow the walkway to the right to find the Intel on a wooden bench.
Mission 14: Captured Intel Locations
• Intel Location #40
During This Objective: The part where you must “Stop the Manticore Targets Countdown Timer”.
Description: Inside the room with the Manticore Targets Countdown Timer. It’s in another room directly opposite the red-letters timer board. After where the two workers surrender, take a right into that dark room.
• Intel Location #41
During This Objective: Activate the Elevator.
Description: In the experimentation room where the Doctor is guarding the doors with a gun. After opening the door in a cutscene, look to your left to find the intel.
• Intel Location #42
During This Objective: Enter the AST.
Description: After the AST suit crashes in front of you, instead of entering the AST, turn around 180 degrees to find the piece of intel among the fires.
Mission 15: Terminus Intel Locations
• Intel Location #43
During This Objective: Stop the Manticore Launch. (After reaching the Atlas Command Center.)
Description: After the subsurface water segment in the AST suit, go down the dark hallways — while mowing down enemy soldiers — to the furthest end to find the intel on the right (on a desk).
• Intel Location #44
During This Objective: Follow Gideon down one level.
Description: Directly after passing through the guarded dark hallways, follow your objective by sticking to the left side past the giant rocket and taking the stairs one floor down. Down there, continue hugging the left wall side past the many soldiers guarding these brightly lit hallways, and then search inside the left Server Control room for the intel on a desk.
• Intel Location #45
During This Objective: Stop the Manticore Launch. (After reaching the Atlas Command Center.)
Description: After Gideon breaks through a metal door marked “Checkpoint” on the lower level, proceed through the other door on the left, leading to another “Checkpoint” room straight ahead which has the final piece of enemy intel on a desk to the left.
There you go! All Intel in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare are yours! 🙂
Huge thanks to Maka, XCV & Raptor for the guide videos and tips.
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