Foreign ownership near strategic bomber base raises national security alarms

• A Chinese-Canadian couple owns a trailer park directly adjacent to Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the B-2 stealth bomber.
• The couple is linked to Miles Guo, a convicted fraudster who has claimed affiliations with Chinese intelligence services.
• The ownership is structured through a complex web of shell companies, a pattern experts call typical of state-linked operations.
• National security experts warn the location provides a platform for espionage, electronic warfare, or even drone attacks on critical U.S. assets.
• The case fits a historical pattern of using Canadian soil as a staging ground for operations targeting U.S. national security.

A sprawling investigative report has revealed that a trailer park bordering Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri—the home of America’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber fleet—is owned by a web of shell companies linked to a Chinese-Canadian couple with ties to a convicted fraudster who claims former affiliations with Chinese intelligence. The discovery, which connects a rural Missouri property to a high-profile Chinese-diaspora repression case in Vancouver, has ignited serious concerns among national security experts about foreign adversaries prepositioning assets near America’s most critical military infrastructure.

The Web of Shell Companies

The Knob Noster Trailer Park sits less than a mile from the runway of Whiteman Air Force Base, the launch point for a recent high-stakes strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Business filings show the property is owned by an entity called Property Solutions 3603 LP. A trail of corporate records in Missouri, Utah, and Georgia connects this company and several similarly named ones to Esther Mei and Cheng Hu, a couple who reside in Richmond, British Columbia.

The use of foreign citizens and a maze of shell companies is a hallmark of state-linked intelligence operations, according to former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright. “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,” Wright stated, arguing the setup provides a “thin veneer of legitimacy.” He warned the location could be used to house signals intelligence equipment to monitor base communications, connect to the local power grid to disrupt base operations, or even conceal attack drones.

Links to a Controversial Figure

The plot thickens with the couple’s connection to Miles Guo, a New York-based tycoon. Social media posts indicate Mei and Hu are members of Guo’s “New Federal State of China” (NFSC) movement. While the NFSC publicly positions itself as anti-CCP, Guo’s history is murky. He was convicted of a billion-dollar fraud conspiracy in 2024 and has repeatedly acknowledged close ties to Chinese intelligence arms, once stating China’s Ministry of State Security tasked him with “handling things for them.”

The FBI found gold People’s Liberation Army pins and multiple passports during raids on Guo’s properties. The couple has hosted programs for NFSC’s “Vancouver Sailing Farm,” an entity named in a bankruptcy proceeding alleging Guo hid assets. This network’s legal connections to Guo deepen the national security implications of their property ownership near Whiteman.

A Pattern of Strategic Proximity

The Missouri trailer park is not the couple’s only property acquisition near sensitive U.S. interests. Through another shell company, they previously owned the Pecan Grove Mobile Home Park in Georgia, located approximately 35 miles from Robins Air Force Base and 50 miles from Fort Benning. They also own two homes in Pontiac, Michigan, less than a mile from a General Motors facility that develops products for the Department of Defense.

At the time of these purchases, Esther Mei served on the board of a Vancouver investment firm, Urban Select Capital Corporation, which had extensive ties to the Chinese government. The firm had offices in Beijing and Hong Kong and partnered with state-owned enterprises in a Chinese government-controlled industrial park that has housed numerous companies sanctioned by the U.S. for supporting China’s military.

A Persistent Threat Pattern

This case is not an isolated incident but fits a documented pattern of using Canadian territory as a staging ground for operations targeting the United States. Historian Dennis Molinaro’s work traces how Beijing has leveraged the overseas Chinese diaspora and Canadian soil for political influence, industrial theft, and scientific infiltration aimed at its primary strategic target.

This history includes the case of Su Bin, a Chinese national arrested in Richmond, B.C., who pleaded guilty to conspiring with hackers in the People’s Liberation Army to steal data on U.S. military aircraft, including the C-17, F-22, and F-35. Such episodes demonstrate a long-standing campaign where enforcement often only occurs after U.S. intervention.

A Call for Scrutiny and Action

The discovery of this potential vulnerability comes with a stark warning from recent global conflicts. Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” operation demonstrated how adversaries can use civilian vehicles and hidden launch containers to deploy swarms of drones against strategic bomber bases, a tactic that could theoretically be replicated against the concentrated B-2 fleet at Whiteman.

The situation has prompted calls from lawmakers and security advocates for an immediate federal investigation and greater transparency in foreign land ownership. “China is pre-positioning assets across the U.S.,” said Michael Lucci of the nonprofit State Armor. “Federal and state leaders should be rapidly assessing how China’s assets within the U.S. will double for military use.” As global tensions simmer, the fence line between a critical U.S. military asset and a foreign-owned property represents a modern security challenge demanding urgent attention.

Sources for this article include:

ZeroHedge.com

ReadLion.com

PJMedia.com