Packet 2: Bonus 17

The 18 US agencies that form a “community” in this field describe its operation as a “cycle” including collection, processing, and dissemination. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this field practiced by the Five Eyes alliance, which operates the ECHELON surveillance program and cooperates with Israel’s Mossad.
ANSWER: intelligence [accept espionage or spycraft; accept signals intelligence or SIGINT]
[10m] Cybersecurity analysts and laypeople alike gather intelligence described by this term, which, in spycraft, refers to public information. An “initiative” that outlines this term’s criteria reviews copyleft licenses for software.
ANSWER: open-source [accept open-source intelligence or OSINT; accept Open Source Initiative; prompt on open]
[10h] Amnesty International’s OSINT research on this agency exposed its mass surveillance facilitated by Geedge Networks. This agency, whose former director was court-martialed for the Top City case, has blackmailed teen spies in its efforts against RAW (“raw”).
ANSWER: ISI [or Inter-Services Intelligence; or Bain-al-xidmātī istixbārāt] (The ISI is Pakistan’s intelligence agency, while RAW, or the Research & Analysis Wing, is India’s. The former director general was Faiz Hameed.)
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HeardPPBE %M %H %
1417.1486%50%36%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BruinStanford A0000
CambridgeVirginia100010E
HarvardGeorgetown100010E
Illinois AVanderbilt0000
IndianaMIT10101030EMH
Maryland APittsburgh1010020EM
Maryland BToronto A10101030EMH
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech B10101030EMH
Ohio StateChicago A100010E
SwarthmoreTexas1010020EM
Toronto BIllinois B100010E
UC Berkeley ARutgers10101030EMH
UCFColumbia A1010020EM
UCLAPurdue1001020EH

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓1417.1486%50%36%