The federal government has been urged to look into how a couple came to own a trailer park in Missouri that shares a fence with an Air Force base where the US military launched the B-2 bombers that struck Iran‘s nuclear facilities over the summer.

The demand came from Rep. Mark Alford, a Republican representing Missouri’s 4th District, which covers Whiteman Air Force Base located about 70 miles east of Kansas City.

Alford wrote a letter to the Treasury Department on Wednesday echoing a report from the Daily Caller showing that Esther Mei and Cheng Hu own the Knob Noster Trailer Park 

The couple, who lives in Canada and owns the trailer park through a series of companies, had ties to Miles Guo, a disgraced billionaire who once admitted to working for the Chinese Communist Party’s intelligence arm. Guo has since denounced the party entirely.  

Alford is concerned about the trailer park’s proximity to the base — less than a mile from the runway — because it ‘plays a vital role in our national defense.’

‘Any potentially foreign ownership of land directly next to one-third of our nuclear triad is deeply concerning, and its ownership by a potential CCP intelligence operative is a grave threat to national security,’ Alford wrote in his letter to Andrew Fair, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Investment Security.

In a statement to the Daily Mail, Alford’s Press Secretary William Barry said his boss’s letter ‘does not jump to conclusions regarding the transaction or Esther Mei and Cheng Hu’.

‘It simply asks for key information: Was this transaction reviewed? If so, what was the outcome of that review? If it wasn’t reviewed, the Congressman is asking [the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] to conduct a thorough one expeditiously,’ Barry said.

The Daily Caller dug up social media posts and past livestreams that indicate Mei and Hu are members of the New Federal State of China, an organization founded in 2017 by Guo and Steve Bannon with the goal of overthrowing the CCP.

Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer, spoke to the outlet and Alford cited his commentary in his letter.

‘The couple, own the park through a series of shell companies which according to Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA operations officer, is “classic Chinese intel ops,”’ Alford wrote. 

The Daily Caller did not cite any evidence that the property is being used as a base for the CCP to undermine American military objectives. The Daily Mail has contacted Mei and Hu for comment, but did not hear back.

Barry told the Daily Mail that Alford has received calls from constituents who are ‘very concerned about this specific issue.’

Alford also pointed out in his letter that Whiteman Air Force Base was added to a list of protected military installations in 2024, requiring real estate transactions within a 100-mile radius of the location to be treated with heightened scrutiny.

‘As this was several years after the transaction in question, this also bolsters the need to ensure it was properly reviewed,’ Alford’s office told the Daily Mail.

‘Obviously, the best possible outcome is that the Treasury lets us know this transaction was reviewed and poses no national security threat, while providing the evidence justifying that decision.

‘We are simply doing our due diligence on behalf of American taxpayers to ensure this transaction was reviewed and our national security is protected.’

Alford has requested a classified briefing to discuss this matter with relevant staff at the Treasury Department. 

The Treasury Department has not responded to Alford’s letter, other than to acknowledge that it had been received, Barry said. The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Guo, who is not involved with the trailer park but has appeared on livestreams with Mei and Hu, told the New Yorker in 2022 that he was an ‘affiliate’ of the CCP prior to fleeing the country in 2014.

He said he handled things for the party and connected it to ‘sensitive figures’ abroad. 

He left China amid an anti-corruption crackdown that could have landed him in prison for life before seeking political asylum in the United States.

Currently, Guo is in Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn awaiting sentencing after he was convicted last year by a New York jury of a $1 billion fraud conspiracy against his online followers.

After Guo was arrested on March 15, 2023, the FBI raided several of his properties and found multiple passports, 29 cellphones, a cellphone scrambler and other technology. 

Inside his Manhattan penthouse, they found gold pins emblazoned with CCP symbols.

Lawyers representing Guo in his criminal and bankruptcy cases did not respond to requests for comment.

Mei and Hu have hosted various shows for New Federal State of China and have interviewed Guo on several occasions during livestreams for the organization.