According to the “two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official” with whom NBC News reporters Courtney Kube and Carol Lee spoke, the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental United States in February was, in fact, “able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites”:
NBC’s sources added, however, that China’s intelligence-gathering coup could have been worse. Administration officials reportedly blocked some of the balloon’s ability to gather and broadcast electronic signals, and they were able to “move around potential targets.” Nevertheless, the Chinese surveillance apparatus did collect intelligence on some of the four sensitive military sites it overflew, including the ICBM silos at Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base.
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