Intel Team

The Intel Team was one of the five units for the Militaires Sans Frontières. The unit responsible for providing intel for the MSF in regards to enemy activity or a weakness of the enemy that could be exploited as well as offering support from Mother Base for MSF soldiers on field missions, as well as investigating conflict regions, strongholds, and high-threat installations among other places of interest to MSF. Their investigations cover force strength, logistics, supply routes, planned operations and their feasability, the chain of command at the location, and behavioral patterns at the site, which included even the faces and family members of various personnel. Upon gaining this information, it is then dispatched to Mother Base in a report which is then used for planning infiltration missions. Depending on the developing situation, contract work can also be assigned to Intel Team agents. Intel Team agents generally infiltrate the target location alone, although they will call in choppers for emergency extraction if necessary. The Intel Team also often works with the R&D Team to develop various radars for MSF, and could also deliver supplies to allied mercenary units. It was brainstormed by Kazuhira Miller shortly after Chico ended up rescued.

On December 7, 1974 at 05:31, an MSF Intel Unit Member known as Hideo requested extraction from his current location. Because of this, Big Boss had to personally infiltrate the location and ensure the agent's escape. In addition, after Chico had disappeared in Cuba, the Intel Team was charged with locating Chico, eventually finding him at the prison camp alongside Paz (which corroborated Chico's earlier SOS transmission to MSF).