FBI found Huawei gear near U.S. military bases and silos could easily disrupt nation’s nukes

In Featured News by Wireless Estimator July 25, 2022

Federal officials investigating Chinese land purchases in the U.S. in recent years discovered that Huawei equipment on cell towers in the Midwest “was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons,” a CNN exclusive report said today.



This cell tower in rural Montana with Huawei equipment on it is just 1,500? from a missile silo. It couldn’t be located by Wireless Estimator in the FCC’s database.

The FBI’s investigation revealed that Huawei had a pattern of installing equipment on cell towers near military bases in rural America – even if it wasn’t profitable to do so.

Although Huawei informed CNN its equipment was not capable of operating on any spectrum allocated to the Defense Department, multiple sources told the cable network, “there’s no question the Huawei equipment has the ability to intercept not only commercial cell traffic but also the highly restricted airwaves used by the military and disrupt critical US Strategic Command communications” – providing the Chinese a window on America’s nuclear arsenal.

CNN said the FBI probe that had been going on since the Obama administration was so secret that some senior policymakers in the White House and government were not briefed until 2019.

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