This article is a pretty fair assessment of the events and connections of the era:
https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/nsa-gchq-tapped-security-system-designed-by-mike-hearn/
It explicitly states that Hearn was unwitting at the time, actually.
What the chain says
- Block
- 640 296
- Time
- 2020-06-21T06:16:00Z
- Signer
- 17wiCRZuJ9GWumnjr1shRfLVzRHd5BzDiR
- App
- twetch
- Type
- post
- Content type
- text/plain
- Name in tx
- twetch#8015
Fields the transaction did not carry are omitted. Open the payload to see the bytes as stored.
Signed by
17wiCRZuJ9GWumnjr1shRfLVzRHd5BzDiR Verified