Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri said Tuesday on NewsNation that a former commander of Whiteman Air Force Base was completely unaware of a nearby trailer park allegedly linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Whiteman Air Force Base, home to America’s nuclear-capable B-2 bombers, shares a fence with a trailer park allegedly linked to the CCP. Appearing on “On Balance With Leland Vittert,” Alford said he had personally spoken with the former base commander, who retired just two days before the top-secret “Midnight Hammer” strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June 2025.
“I just talked to the former commander of the base who retired two days before the Midnight Hammer strike, and he wasn’t aware that this existed. The problem is that CFIUS [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] needs to step up its game, and we’re going to help in doing that,” Alford told Vittert. “These are transactions that happened in the past. I think CFIUS is concentrated now on present transactions and those going forward. I think we need to take a look back at transactions maybe in the last 10 years.”
Alford said the Treasury Department unit failed to scrutinize the Whiteman property despite its proximity to America’s stealth bomber fleet.
So he says!