Do you think there would ever be a time the CIA or some central-authority-agency would in someway sponsor activities that would hurt Bitcoin's image in the world?
What do you think?
Since they can control media I think it is obvious they will do all they can to give a bad publicity as a descentralized and limited curency go against their money supply monopolio.
The problem is that being descentralized they can not attack it directly so they can push forks, bad image as it is money for drugs etc... but every time has more news saying that bitcoin is not being used on those ilegal markets. They will try all they can without doubt