Intelligence operations evolve to, I am not referring to Russia at all, this is all plot for the mafia running the system to identify anti-system people. Pay attention to the point that Operation Trust was a trap to identify anti-Bolsheviks.
That is all this is:
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Operation_Trust
Hundred Flowers Campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
Tagantsev conspiracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagantsev_conspiracy