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This may be true. If you look at the timeline of his arrest and when TrueCrypt ceased development, they are around the same time.

Matthew Green also tweeted about this correlation on twitter: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/71481367667133644...

Or that someone else involved with TrueCrypt feared he would.

The article is unclear as for whether he was still involved with TrueCrypt by the time they got him though. It sounds like he had quite a lot going on to even care for TrueCrypt at that point.

Sure, but he can't assume that his captors are rational. They might very well blackbag him to some undisclosed dungeon and work him over until he convinces them that he doesn't have commit access. (Which duration might exceed his remaining lifespan, in such conditions.)