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[Jackie Chan Adventures] How does Section 13 always know where magical items and locations, like where talismans or demon portals, are?

Section 13 is cemented pretty firmly in the non-magical, with Agent Black not even believing in magic until the end of the first season. Yet they always know exactly where to send Jackie to retrieve a talisman or where a demon portal is. How do they always get this information? They're so good at retrieving the information that they can get Jackie there at the same time or before the Dark Hand.
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Ubiquitous surveillance and phone tapping allows them to track the operatives of the dark hand and their criminal activity. 

Black market sales of artifacts is a common way terrorist cells fund themselves. Tracking such sales requires no magic, just a team effort comprised of long hours of good old fashioned investigative work.