Don't know, but this is as good a story as any. If you believe to run QAnon or White Hats you might need a certain capability this group seems to have the skills.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) is a group of former officers of the United States Intelligence Community which formed in January 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity
2003 is almost 20 years ago and you have got a group like this running around.
From the Wiki Gina Haspel and QAnon
In March 2018, VIPS published a memo opposing the appointment of Gina Haspel as CIA director due to her alleged involvement in the CIA's torture program.[32]
The Financial Times and Heavy.com have speculated that VIPS, and in particular William Binney and Robert David Steele, may have been involved in recruiting the networks that became the QAnon pro-Trump conspiracy cult.[33][34]