That helps less than it might seem at first glance because it's just a very convoluted, readily bungle-able project, as per:
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62598.html
with HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33929620
and one of its references, which I don't think has had HN coverage
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentat...
None of these difficulties imply or require infiltration by intelligence services.