> the CIA surely has sufficient internal incentives to fix privately disclosed vulnerabilities.
Do they? Also various people could have different definitions of "sufficient". They might previously have had 3 people spending half their time on it, and this might cause them to increase it to 5 people working full time on it.
Do major tech companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft) have less internal incentives than the CIA?
This XSS vulnerability apparently took a year to be fixed: https://www.openbugbounty.org/reports/164180/