Oh, I found an another article about it but not from the same journalist I mentioned..
Spy-funded privacy tools (like Signal and Tor) are not going to protect us from President Trump | Surveillance Valley — Yasha Levine
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. A book by Yasha Levine. Spies, counterinsurgency campaigns, hippie entrepreneurs, privacy apps funded by the CIA. From the 1960s to the 2010s — you'll never look at the Internet the same again.
surveillancevalley.com