their application process, KRYLOVA, BOGACHEVA, R. BOVDA, and their co- conspirator falsely claimed they were traveling for personal reasons and did not fully disclose their place of employment to hide the fact that they worked for the ORGANIZATION. c. Only KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA received visas, and from approximately June 4, 2014 through June 26, 2014, KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA traveled in and around the United States, including stops in Nevada, California, New Mexico, Colorado. Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Texas, and New York to gather intelligence. After the trip, KRYLOVA and BURCHIK exchanged an intelligence report regarding the trip. d. Another co-conspirator who worked for the ORGANIZATION traveled to Atlanta,
Georgia from approximately November 26, 2014 through November 30, 2014. Following the trip, the co-conspirator provided POLOZOV a summary of his trip’s itinerary and expenses.
3]. In order to collect additional intelligence, Defendants and their co-conspirators posed as
US. persons and contacted US. political and social activists. For example, starting in or around
June 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, posing online as US. persons, communicated
with a real US. person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. During the exchange,
Defendants and their co-conspirators learned from the real US. person that they should focus their
activities on “purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida” After that exchange, Defendants
and their co-conspirators commonly referred to targeting “purple states” in directing their efforts.
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