satoshi asks gavin to present to CIA in early 2011, then disappears.. wouldnt surprise me if this were true.
there is a well known You Tube video of Gavin saying he was invited by In-Q-Tel and ended up in a meeting with the Head of CIA.
oh wait , did that happen? does that video still exist?
based on eye movement and facial expression Gavin is "Satoshi" or at least he done a fair amount of writing for him.
why hide it? so what? - if they weren't interested in this project someone's not doing their job.
But i think is was created independently either by the NSA/Google guys (based off the 1996 white paper) just because no one specifically said they shouldn't do it. (Lego land movie scenario)
there is such a huge crossover of employees from the NSA to Google, no one could track what project is being worked on, until constant flags (key words)
"Decentralized" "anarchist" "money" "crypto" "cryptography" "political" "Government" etc etc...
were likely turning up on say this forum and other forum, and always in reference to "Bitcoin"
so in 2011 (or whenever it was) - Gavin gets "called in"
rest is history.