Weakening of encryption standards is much older than that.

Weakening of the DES encryption by US goverment in 1970s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

The GSM encryption from 1990s

"Security researcher Ross Anderson reported in 1994 that "there was a terrific row between the NATO signal intelligence agencies in the mid-1980s over whether GSM encryption should be strong or not. The Germans said it should be, as they shared a long border with the Warsaw Pact; but the other countries didn't feel this way, and the algorithm as now fielded is a French design."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1