From smh.com.au:

Senior American politicians have heaped praise on the Chinese defector Chen Yonglin, the former consul for political affairs in the Chinese consulate in Sydney, after his address to a US congressional committee in Washington.

Mr Chen repeated claims that more than 1000 Chinese secret agents and informants were tracking and persecuting Falun Gong members. “In each Chinese mission overseas, there must be at least one official in charge of Falun Gong affairs, he said.

He appeared before the global human rights subcommittee of the House committee on international relations, with several experts on China’s repression of religious groups.