This authoritative hearing report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. From the introduction by Congressman Smith: The Russian Government regularly pursues its vendettas beyond its borders, harassing and even murdering Russian emigres abroad, people who are on the Putin circle's target list for various reasons. The poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in England is one of the most recent examples to reach the news. The Kremlin's sadistic pursuit of the Bitkov family is, in its way, just as shocking as the cruel murder of Litvinenko and the attempted murders of the Skripals. The Bitkovs are still alive today, but they have been hounded for over a decade to the opposite ends of the world and beyond the limits of human endurance merely for resisting Putin's favorites who sought to take over their successful paper manufacturing company. More shocking, the facts of the case strongly indicate—and we will hear testimony on this today—that the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, or CICIG, became deeply involved in the Kremlin's persecution of the Bitkov family—indeed, that CICIG acted as the Kremlin's operational agent in brutalizing and tormenting the Bitkov family. Congress has a special responsibility in this matter because the United States is one of the largest contributors to CICIG, to their budget. There has been little congressional oversight of CICIG. It is clearly time for that to change.

This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.