Kuala Lumpur meta solution

Original concept by Noah Snyder, with much, much input by many, many people.

The puzzle answers, in order across the map, are:

BALFOUR
BATHTUB
MAXIMUM
CHECKUP
FALCONS
PADLOCK
VMLINUX
FREIGHT
SAVINGS
CASTOFF
MRSPLUM
WARMTHS

Each answer is seven letters long, and contains vowels only in the second through sixth letter positions. The vowels fit the pattern *AEIOU* in all the words. By taking the positions of vowels as 1s and the positions of consonants as 0s, and ignoring the first and last column, you get a set of binary numbers. By converting 1 to A, 2 to B, et cetera, the answer SQUIRREL TRAP is spelled out:

10011  BALFOUR  19  S
10001  BATHTUB  17  Q
10101  MAXIMUM  21  U
01001  CHECKUP   9  I
10010  FALCONS  18  R
10010  PADLOCK  18  R
00101  VMLINUX   5  E
01100  FREIGHT  12  L
10100  SAVINGS  20  T
10010  CASTOFF  18  R
00001  MRSPLUM   1  A
10000  WARMTHS  16  P

Thus, SQUIRREL TRAP is Natasha Fatale's pass phrase. When teams met with her, she told them the following:

Come here. I heff some very important sings to tell you. Moriarty is developing a bomb. It is not von of zose round bleck sings zat my old colleague from Acme likes so much. It is not zee Death By Chocolate Bombe — zose are my favorites, but it is not zee Blonde Bombshell either — I het zose sings, but they are so much fun to disarm. Eet is not either zee nice innocent red cendle with zee letters T.N.T. written on the side zat people are always putting on Boris's birthday cake. (I know from personal experience zat even the finest agents in the vorld hef been taken in by zose sings.) Ees zee high tech EITmaster 9000 teek teek teek kind, with wires. Very scary.

But never fear, I heff a plen. In fect, I have *zee* plens. We are very proud to obtain these plans, but we are great, powerful organization so such things are possible for us. We have agents hiding in nine cities around the world. Here you go.

Did you see that? Did it look like flying Squirrel to you? Excuse me!

Thus, teams (1) learned that there are nine cities, and (2) got the plans to Moriarty's bomb.

The Natasha Fatale encounter was written by Cally Perry, and performed by Erin Conwell and Alya Asarina.