Sure, but if you run OpenWRT you can pick the radio firmware image. And you can trust Qualcomm cause they're from San Diego and made Eudora; their firmware won't have intentional security issues.
The US intelligence apparatus is the GOAT of overthrowing foreign governments. They love it so much they even sometimes come back and overthrow the puppet regime they put in place a few years earlier (or just bomb the shit out of the civilians).
