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>Yet, Tor pages I've read certainly weren't describing themselves as a tool of U.S. intelligence agencies funded by their fronts.

I'm not sure DARPA or Naval Research Laboratory are really intelligence agency fronts.

https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en

Tor is supported by intelligence agencies because of the value it brings to them. For someone undercover, Tor is a great way to keep in touch, and if you're confronted you have a plausible explanation of wanting to buy LSD or watch kiddie porn or whatever most people use Tor for.

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Didnt say DARPA was an intelligence front although it funds things for use by DOD mainly. NRL funded Tor for use by US military. State and CIA have numerous front organizations whose goal is to push propaganda into foreign countries to destabilize regimes. I see a notorious one on the page you listed: Radio Free Asia. Look up its backstory. They could've just wrote CIA-funded but tgen it was put under another propaganda organization claiming no CIA ties.

Given those propaganda groups and CIA affiliates are majority of its funding, it's strange to worry about a CIA person involved for project's "image." It's CIA & State funded for their use!

Far as supporting them, I totally agree and mentioned it in my main comment. Nothing wrong with taking money to do things of mutual benefit/interest.