DOGE Staffer Known as 'Big Balls' Reportedly the Grandkid of a KGB Spy
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Summary

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer recently promoted to a senior adviser role in the State Department, is reportedly the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov.

Martynov was executed in the Soviet Union after being exposed as an FBI informant. Coristine, an alleged former cybercriminal, previously worked in the General Services Administration and now has potential access to sensitive diplomatic data.

Concerns have been raised over his background and apparent lack of a security check.

The situation fuels fears about foreign influence in U.S. government operations.

  • redwattlebird@lemmings.world
    72·
    17 hours ago

    Surely the fact that he’s 19 and a senior advisor in a state department is more damning than his lineage? And that Trump is very obviously friendly with Putin?

    I think this familial connection is just a storm in a teacup which is sitting inside a much larger storm.

    • Placebonickname@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 hours ago

      U know what I was doing at 19 years old? Nothing…nothing that counted as work. I won a bacon eating contest at college and played a ton of Mario Kart 64.

      • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        8 hours ago

        And that was very responsible of you. Wish more people would be participating in bacon eating contests over actively making the world a worse place. Please play video games and go have harmless fun. It’s better for society.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      57·
      15 hours ago

      Surely the fact that he’s 19 and a senior advisor in a state department is more damning than his lineage?

      Well firstly, it is the media, they love to sensationalise so they came up with this attention grabbing headline.

      And that Trump is very obviously friendly with Putin?

      At first I thought both simply have the same ideological inclination, and the speculation that Putin has a kompromat on Trump is a meme. Now, I am increasingly becoming convinced on the latter. Not even Mussolini bent this low to Hitler.