Given his position, is revealing his identity really that great of a move for an uneventful retirement? The reduction in personal security (given that many people might want revenge on him or extract information) seems like a bad trade.
He already explicitly wanted to publish the book with his actual initials. It would have been quite easy for adversaries with just general public information to get from the initials to the person, right?
So perhaps revealing the full name doesn't make much of a difference, which is why it could just as well have been "accidental" (quotes intented).
