Musk won’t hear classified war plans in Pentagon visit

Elon Musk’s visit to the Pentagon on Friday will focus on the threat China presents to the region but won’t include classified war plans, according to an official with knowledge of the plans.

The meeting, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Indo-Pacific commander Adm. Sam Paparo — who will attend virtually from Hawaii — shows the extraordinary level of access Musk, a defense contractor with billions of dollars in government contracts, holds over the administration.

The unclassified briefing contradicts the The New York Times, which first reported the meeting. The conversation will focus exclusively on China as the United States’ primary military challenge, according to the official. It also comes just two days before Hegeth is set to leave on a weeklong trip to Asia with stops in Japan, Philippines, Guam and Hawaii.

The official did not say whether Musk was originally going to receive a classified briefing.

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell on Friday morning demanded the newspaper retract the report but did not provide any specifics about what it allegedly got wrong.

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