The founder of Ordinals is some dude named Supernestnet who is also a developer of the Lightning network and according to this website he was playing around with the BTC blockchain's Ordinal theory and he found a bug in it or I should say, a way to inscribe images in the blockchain.

Although he might be a member or might have some links to the government but IMHO he is not a government person as he is a BTC enthusiast but I don't know what good was brought out of this discovery, maybe he/she did not realize the impact of it. Overall, another LN developer might confirm if he is some government dude or not.