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Prominent DOGE staffer Edward Coristine is grandson of turncoat KGB spy

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US.

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. Yurchenko was a major prize — the highest ranking defector in KGB history — and was soon spirited to the United States, where he was installed in a Virginia safe-house that, it was hoped, would be beyond the prying eyes of Soviet agents posted in the capital region. Some of the US officials working with him worried that he might reconsider his defection, so in September 1985, they made an unorthodox decision: Yurchenko and a handful of minders would make a clandestine trip to Canada, where he would confront his former lover and ask her to join him in the United States.

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