I’ve spent half a decade studying how adversarial foreign governments, including China, Russia and Iran quietly acquire U.S. land, homes, and strategic properties.
I’ve recently been to the Capitol - meeting with members of Congress and the Senate - about how they’re thinking about this threat.
What I heard alarmed me.
Today, I’m going to explain why DC is missing the scale of this problem, why the public is only getting fragments of the truth, and what the real landscape looks like.
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I’ve recently been to the Capitol - meeting with members of Congress and the Senate - about how they’re thinking about this threat.
What I heard alarmed me.
Today, I’m going to explain why DC is missing the scale of this problem, why the public is only getting fragments of the truth, and what the real landscape looks like.
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This morning, news broke that China secretly purchased a trailer park that shares a fence line with the base housing one of America’s bomber fleets.
On July 8, USDA rolled out a farmland monitoring initiative.
I shared my concerns then about why this approach fundamentally misses the threat.
On July 8, USDA rolled out a farmland monitoring initiative.
I shared my concerns then about why this approach fundamentally misses the threat.
The core flaw: trailer parks don’t fall under USDA jurisdiction.
But the real problem is even larger - trailer parks and farmland aren’t where the bulk of activity is happening.
The scale is in residential housing, where adversarial foreign governments operate with almost no oversight and enormous data blind spots.
This visual captures a more accurate picture of the current state.
But the real problem is even larger - trailer parks and farmland aren’t where the bulk of activity is happening.
The scale is in residential housing, where adversarial foreign governments operate with almost no oversight and enormous data blind spots.
This visual captures a more accurate picture of the current state.
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have all established advanced networks of property scouts inside the U.S.
These scouts pre-purchase homes and land years before the properties officially transfer into government-linked ownership.
They often use the same scouts, the same brokers, the same transactional patterns—if you know where to look.
Here’s one small network mapped across transactions spanning decades.
And the outcomes are not theoretical.
These scouts pre-purchase homes and land years before the properties officially transfer into government-linked ownership.
They often use the same scouts, the same brokers, the same transactional patterns—if you know where to look.
Here’s one small network mapped across transactions spanning decades.
And the outcomes are not theoretical.
Here’s just one of tens of thousands of properties owned today by adversarial foreign governments - located next to Luke Air Force Base.
But this location is not isolated.
It’s connected through the same acquisition network to properties near Nashua County, New Hampshire - home to major U.S. defense and aerospace R&D hubs.
These networks are not random.
They are strategically coordinated.
But this location is not isolated.
It’s connected through the same acquisition network to properties near Nashua County, New Hampshire - home to major U.S. defense and aerospace R&D hubs.
These networks are not random.
They are strategically coordinated.
They also own properties adjacent to @elonmusk and @SpaceX research centers - locations with direct implications for national defense and launch capabilities.
They own high-visibility parcels sitting directly on flight paths coming off Eglin Air Force Base - one of the most important test and evaluation facilities in the U.S.
So what is Washington doing?
Politics.
This has devolved into a performative fight - an issue to posture on rather than solve.
Meanwhile, China, Russia, and Iran continue acquiring U.S. homes, mobile homes, and land.
Some share borders with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - the epicenter of American nuclear research.
Politics.
This has devolved into a performative fight - an issue to posture on rather than solve.
Meanwhile, China, Russia, and Iran continue acquiring U.S. homes, mobile homes, and land.
Some share borders with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - the epicenter of American nuclear research.
Hearings won’t fix this. Only visibility will.
@ParclLabs is mapping what no federal agency can currently see.
And that blind spot is exactly where adversarial governments thrive.
America can’t defend what it can’t see.
Right now, we’re flying blind.
@ParclLabs is mapping what no federal agency can currently see.
And that blind spot is exactly where adversarial governments thrive.
America can’t defend what it can’t see.
Right now, we’re flying blind.
@elonmusk @SpaceX @nikitabier is there a button I can press that marks this as what I believe is a pretty significant security issue?
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