the russian federation without prior notification to the attorney general as required by law. the fbi has conducted a multi-year investigation of a network of united states based agents of the foreign intelligence agency. the svr. the targets include covert svr agents who assumed false identities and were living in the u.s. on long term deep cover assignments. these russian secret agents worked to hide all connections between themselves and russia even as they act at the direction and under the control of the svr. these secret agents are typically called illegals. the fbi's investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the u.s. in the service of one primary long-term goal, to become sufficiently americanized such that they can gather information about the u.s. for russia and can successfully recruit sources who are in or are able to infiltrate u.s. policy making circles. in this indictment, donald