For nearly two decades, a secretive agency has worked in the shadows to carry out orders from the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party: to “eradicate” a group of spiritual believers deemed as a threat to the atheist regime. Known as the “610 Office,” the group was set up in 1999 as an “extra-legal” body specifically to target adherents of Falun Gong. While very little public information is available about the office, including its chain of command, what is clear is that its activities are not confined to China’s borders, according to a French military think tank. All told, the office had about 15,000 people in China and abroad tasked to suppress Falun Gong adherents, said a recently released 650-page report by the Institute for Strategic Studies of Military Schools, a think tank funded by the French military, detailing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) expansive global influence activities. Falun …