Green’s Dictionary of Slang

information, also attrib.

1994		(con. 1968) T. Wolff In Pharoah’s Army 173: ‘I’ve got negative intel. Nobody tells me squat’ .
1999		J. Maple Crime Fighter 100: [M]uch of the intel about crime that the department had in its possession was as good as lost to most of the people who could use it.
2006		(con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 132: [I]t was going to be almost impossible to get any credible street intel on them.
2011		F. Bill ‘The Need’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] [He] knew how the Taliban gathered intel. Slow disembowelment. Promises of food [...] then the beheading.
2015		G. Disher Heat [ebook] [H]omes or businesses he thought would be worth robbing but, until he had better intel, he couldn’t say what the take be be.
2018		G. Disher Kill Shot [ebook] [I]t became clear that she was responsible for some of her father’s intel.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 285: ‘The Chief wants me to [...] compile intel files’.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 10: ‘We all know that intel is a big bug up Pete Pitchess’ ass’.
2023		M. Herron Secret Hours 197: ‘[T]he Intelligence Service, whose brief, as the name suggests, is to capture intel’.