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First you have to understand WHY Bitcoin is unique. Forget what you've heard.
Bitcoin is unique because even if you control 99% of it, you still cannot prevent those who own the remaining 1% from doing whatever they want with their money.
To do that, you need to control the world's energy supply. An entirely orthogonal (and very expensive) resource. I think I have pretty good intuition, and the CIA simply would never design a currency that is fundamentally uncontrollable even for them. There are so many easier ways to accomplish what they want than the proof of work algorithm in Bitcoin.
Instead, the CIA would (and did) develop Ripple to thwart Bitcoin. They saw the danger that BTC represented, and in 2017 infected the crypto community with green nonsense, creating proof of stake, and eventually, proof of authority coins like XRP. Ripple (XRP) has always been a CBDC with a thin veneer of blockchain to hide its truly centralized nature.
These are coins where if you control enough of the currency you absolutely can stop people from transacting. That is the marker of a CIA operation.
If you understand the history of the Liberty Dollar, you can also understand why the creator(s) of Bitcoin were so careful to hide their identity. The only thing we are reasonably certain of is that Nick Szabo was at least one of the people behind the Satoshi nom-de-plume. Baysian analysis of the original Satoshi emails confirms that.
So if you want to begin your research on the real identity of the group calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto, begin with researching his life.
TBH though, most of the world's tapped energy supplies are already defacto government monopolies via licensing schemes, so positing needing to control energy supplies as a requirement to undermine Bitcoin ain't exactly a strong point.
Yes, but you also need to restrict it from everyone else so ONLY you can use it. It's not enough just to operate the supplies. And restricting energy has a tendency to piss off the very people you are trying to control with your programmable currency. It is a very difficult and unprofitable scenario. I don't believe the CIA would ever intentionally create something like this when there are so many better/easier options.