Internal documents obtained by the team at WIRED revealed that operatives from Elon Musk‘s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) have been installed at National Institutes of Health and gained access to “sensitive financial systems.”
Government records reviewed by WIRED show that the four people associated with DOGE have email addresses linking them to the NIH, the federal agency for health research in the US. Internal documents reviewed by WIRED show that three of these employees are employed in the department that controls the NIH’s central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system. The DOGE operatives listed in government records are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin, and Clark Minor. Farritor is a former SpaceX intern and current Thiel fellow who also has a working email address linking him to the General Services Administration (GSA).
Infiltration at NIH is another in a series of Musk-led, unprecedented breaches, including “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.-authorized” entry inside DHS; “young operatives” gaining access to Treasury systems; and monkeying around inside FAA’s traffic-control system.
Musk, Trump and their associates claim to be “rooting out government waste” but the resignation of 21 DOGE staffers who “refused to dismantle government” says otherwise.
