High Value Individual

The HVI was an American in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He was said to be in possession of critical intelligence documents. General Shepherd then informed Sergeant Foley's squad to rescue him from a panic room at the end of Exodus. His challenge code was 'Icepick', the countersign was "Phoenix'. When Sgt. Foley, Corporal Dunn and Private James Ramirez reached the house with the panic room, it had already been attacked by the Russians and the HVI was dead. Ramirez collected the remnants of the briefcase in the panic room while Dunn took pictures of the dead Russians to send to G2 for analysis.

Trivia

 * When you walk in, there is a teddy bear with a chessboard. He might have been crazy and worried about the Russians. Quite funny, he also seems to have lost the chess match to the teddy bear.
 * Once you go prone near his body, you can see he was shot in the eye.
 * When you look at his body, there is a mobile phone. He might have made a last desperate call to Shepherd due to there being speculation of the briefcase containing info of Shepherds motives.
 * Although Foley states that there was no sign of forced entry, there are obvious signs of a struggle. There is a used smoke grenade, still giving off a bit of smoke in the back of the room, which may have been used to blind the HVI while a special ops team breached the room. The dead Russian is another obvious one, he may have been killed in a firefight between the HVI and the Russians. Also, there is bloody footsteps leaving and entering the panic room, which could be the footsteps of the rest of the Russians. Lastly, a Russian soldier is seen downstairs getting food from a refrigerator, meaning he had probably been settled there for awhile. It is possible that the HVI holds some clues about the relation between Shepherd and Makarov and neither sides want him alive. The HVI must have delibrately let the Russian soldiers inside (they are probably Makarov's men as they have tatoos on their chest) therefore no sign of forced entry was found and eventually a fight broke out as the HVI found out that the soldiers came for his life.