The 'CIA funded' bit this opens with has the quality and tone of similar things that put George Soros or the Illuminati at the center of all the all the ills of the world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...
Or more recently RSA:
In particular, operating a large enough fraction of the exit nodes would provide quite a lot of intelligence, and we know spooks of various stripes do operate a lot of them. Just being seen in contact with a known exit node might be enough to draw unwelcome attention.
That said, the public evidence I know of seems to suggest the spooks' main interest in Tor is actually in having their own assets able to use it.