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 Your potential sponsors either understand this or they don't. The names of all of the people that impress your friends by listing them. All that your friends need to know is that meetings with the names on MY list would not be possible without the unknown names in your "business card" notebook. Keep them focused on who you are NOW able to meet, NOT the people you have ALREADY met.

22. Your affiant has reviewed a number of .pdf documents stored in BUTINA's Laptop containing Twitter direct messages between BUTINA and the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL that reflect direction and coordination of BUTINA's efforts by the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL. The direct messages between BUTINA and the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL in the latter half of 2015 include:


 * A conversation between the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL and BUTINA regarding an article published by BUTINA in The National Interest on or about June 12, 2015, which argued that certain U.S. politicians and Russians share many common interests. BUTINA asked the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL to look at the article, and the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL said it was very good;


 * A request by the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL for BUTINA to "write [him] something brief" about a political event in the United States which she was scheduled to attend. BUTINA provided that write-up the next day, which included descriptions of her speaking to a political candidate on the night of the announcement, as well as BUTINA's previous private meeting with the candidate at the 2015 annual GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION members' meeting;


 * Discussions about the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL's anticipated attendance at a National Prayer Breakfast (including whether he had received approval to attend from the MFA), and providing the RUSSIAN OFFICIAL with