https://www.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/face-behind-bitcoin-2479...
TL;DR: Satoshi Dorian Nakamoto, japonese imigrant in the US, is software engineer, worked both in financial and defense sector...
For the record, TOR network is the work of 2 defense sector contractors.
EDIT: TOR and Bitcoin are 2 technologies which work both in tandem and share some requirement as well as limitations. As for requirement, they both are designed to provide at least of pretense of privacy. And that what they both advertised for. And as for limitations, Bitcoin implentation doesn't make sense for wide adoption because it is extremely costly to operate and is so slow it cannot be adopted for day to day financial operations ; and TOR is also slow as hell and unreliable...
For spy and LE stuffs, creation of an anonymous(?) internet network and pseudo-anonymous payment network make sense. If you are of control of end points (like payment processors or online wallets or [ISP companies?]), they give both a sense of (false) security for bad actors, whoever they are for whatever they do, and allow allied organisations or individuals to funnel information and money to each other provided they have secured the endpoints they use themself.
Also for the record, China has banned both Crypto and TOR as well as Russia (except for 'international operations') at least 1 year ago.
Some might argue that creation of online drugs markets, the crazy rush in crypto space by dubious 'entrepreners' and the rise of private and state hacking actors are the proof that western governments agencies could not be involved in these technologies... But it could be simply they didn't anticipated neither of these devellopments. Let's call that externalities.