REPORT: Teen DOGE Worker Is Grandson Of KGB Spy

Jacob Silverman reports at Substack:

Among the cadre of DOGE engineers now rooting through the guts of the administrative state, few have attracted more curiosity than Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, a 19-year-old coder who interned for three months for Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company.

Coristine has a brief but colorful history that includes being fired from Path Networks, a cybersecurity company, for giving company documents to a competitor. He apparently palled around with a criminal hacking group called The Com and, according to a Telegram account associated with him, had solicited hacking services online.

There’s one aspect of Coristine’s background that has escaped public notice: his grandfather, Valery Martynov, was a KGB spy who played an intriguing role in a sprawling 1980s espionage drama.

Read the full article. There’s SO much more in this deep dive. No paywall. Coristine appeared here last week when it was reported that he once ran a “shitposting” operation that allowed the creation of URLs referencing child porn and the KKK. That same day “Big Balls” [his username] was named a senior advisor to the State Department and DHS.

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga.https://t.co/DUEoWUp87w pic.twitter.com/FDJTHtENeQ

— Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob) February 21, 2025