Edward Coristine, a protege of Elon Musk’s at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), who has already gained notoriety for his checkered early tech career and for glorying in the nickname “Big Balls”, is the grandson of a KGB spy, according to a new report.
Current unease about DOGE hacking and slashing at the state bureaucracy in the interest of making efficiency savings has rarely been better expressed than by veteran Democratic strategist Paul Begala, who complained on CNN’s The Source earlier this month: “Who the hell voted for – excuse the phrase – a guy who calls himself ‘Big Balls’?.
He nevertheless finds himself serving under the world’s richest man as a “senior adviser” to Donald Trump’s State Department and Department of Homeland Security, with access to highly sensitive information about working American diplomats and those involved in national security and counterterrorism operations.
As Silverman recounts the story, Martynov and his family enjoyed their taste of American prosperity before, in April 1982, he and another agent, Sergei Motorin, were flipped by the FBI and began feeding the bureau Soviet state secrets.
Martynov’s double agent status was duly exposed – to Cherkashin’s personal chagrin and disappointment – forcing him to conceive a plan to have the former sent home to Moscow as an escort for a returning Soviet defector, Vitaly Yurchenko.
