Crypto? Probably, sprinkle in Mossad, UFW, GCHQ, etc. (Fwiw tho I also think Bitcoin is an NSA white hat op)
Calle took HRF spook money so might just be a useful idiot.
The ECash libs already existed, not sure to what extent they've been improved. Cashu though does plenty of affinity scamming as a Bitcoin project, tsk tsk.