The use of foreign citizens and shell companies is “classic Chinese intel ops” providing the CCP with a “thin veneer of legitimacy.”
“It is a five-alarm fire for foreigners tied to Chinese intelligence to own the mobile home and RV park that is essentially off Whiteman’s runway.” Whiteman AFB’s runway is less than a mile away from the property.
“There’s zero chance a Chinese couple from Canada rolled into Knob Noster and saw a strictly financial investment in a dumpy plot of land. This trailer park would hypothetically give Xi Jinping a range of options to wreak havoc. For example, certain spy tools can connect to the local grid and fry systems at Whiteman AFB. He might also house signals intelligence equipment like a StingRay to catch cell phone data of people on base and target them for later recruitment. He can also hide attack drones or even missiles in nearby storage units and otherwise benign-looking shipping containers, as we’ve seen in the war in Ukraine and Russia.”
“China is pre-positioning assets across the U.S. in both the cyber and physical realm. They seek to be able to incapacitate us. Federal and state leaders should be rapidly assessing how China’s assets within the US — including industrial, residential and commercial properties on top of agricultural land — will double for military use. China’s agents should be expelled accordingly.”
“Beyond the obvious risk of photos and footage of B-2 bombers, properties immediately adjacent to an airfield create direct — and dangerous — access vectors.” There is satellite communications (SATCOM) infrastructure located on the north end of Whiteman AFB.
“Those dishes are plausibly tied to the base’s SATCOM and secure command-and-control links and would logically fall under the purview of the 509th Communications Squadron.”
“The 509th is responsible for the B-2’s global-strike command, control, and communications networks — the systems that allow the bomber force to receive, process, and transmit mission data securely from Whiteman or forward-deployed locations.”
Line-of-sight and/or close proximity is a requirement for some methods of surveillance and electronic warfare attacks.
“In a left-of-war environment the CCP would prize that marginal access to map and influence these links. In wartime the same access becomes a high-value avenue to disrupt tactical command-and-control, and mission assurance. That’s precisely why continuous counterintelligence, emissions-control, and community reporting matter.”
“Kinetic weapons can obviously reach targets at 30–50 miles, but the real operational leverage for the CCP at those distances lies in electronic warfare, cyber intrusion, and persistent intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance. Those capabilities are easier to operate from standoff, easier to maintain and hide, and allow adversaries to surveil, jam, and degrade critical nodes while remaining effectively ‘off the map’ of conventional defenses — precisely why co-location matters.”
“Individuals affiliated with the Chinese government use shell companies to disguise their identities and their intentions.”
“That’s why land transactions near our military sites need to be scrutinized to the highest degree.”Quote
Byron Wan
@Byron_Wan
Whiteman AFB, the base for all 19 operational B-2 Spirit nuclear-capable stealth bombers, shares a fence with the Knob Noster Trailer Park in Missouri. The RV park is one of several properties near US military interests acquired by a web of shell companies ultimately owned by