Here is something worth chasing down:
By Alex Marquardt
...Nestled among these silos (click here) are clusters of cell phone towers operated by a small rural wireless carrier. According to FCC filings, those cell towers use Chinese technology that security experts warn could allow China to gather intelligence while also potentially mounting network attacks in the areas surrounding this and other sensitive military installations.
Huawei, the Chinese company that makes the tower technology, is shunned by the major US wireless carriers (including AT&T, which owns CNN parent company WarnerMedia) and the federal government over national security concerns. Yet its technology is widely deployed by a number of small, federally-subsidized wireless carriers that buy cheaper Chinese-made hardware to place atop their cell towers. In some cases those cellular networks provide exclusive coverage to rural areas close to US military bases.
In congressional testimony last year, the heads of six major US intelligence agencies -- including the FBI and CIA - warned Americans against using Huawei devices and products. Security experts say that having its technology deployed so close to the nation's arsenal of ICBMs could pose a far greater threat.
"We know the Chinese are engaged in a massive espionage campaign against the US," said James Lewis, director of the Technology Policy Program at the DC-based think tank The Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We know that the Chinese engage in massive surveillance against their own population. You put two and two together and say, how comfortable do I feel having Huawei on the phone systems around my most important military bases?...
To me the arrest in Canada of the Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, is far more profound than it appears. Trudeau did the USA a great favor by arresting Meng Wanzhou.
Americans are not used to thinking of a Wall Street company as an espionage tool. That is a problem which leads to the invasive methods that effected the 2016 election. The Russians invaded the USA's telecommunication infrastructure long before 2016.
I do not believe these Chinese cell towers controls the missile silos, but, I do believe Huawei cell towers are used by China for espionage and information gathering. If the USA is stupid enough to use any cell tower to control missile silos then the country is lost. Those missile silos are older than any cell tower and are manned by USA military. What is a worry is the land above these missile silos are invaded by Chinese intelligence.
