Edward "Big Balls" Coristine is reportedly the grandson of Valery Fedorovich Martynov, a KGB agent executed by the Soviet Union for sharing state secrets with the FBI

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.