People have been promoting these kinds of conspiracy theories about TTSA from the jump, but in my view such theories instantly fail the basic logic test and only reveal the opportunistic pseudointellectuals within the field of ufology.
Yes - most of the top people involved at TTSA have some level of government involvement. But since the government has the hard data and hasn't been sharing it with the public for 70 years, only the insiders know wtf is really going on. So who else can work to bring the info out? It's logical that insiders would have to take the initiative. So the fact that insiders are doing that doesn't strike me as suspicious.
But more obviously - the government's policy about AAVs has been denial and ridicule for over 70 years. The last thing they want, is this kind of effort which lends credibility to, and generates renewed widespread interest in, this subject. And I've seen this to be true: right after the NYT story broke, YouTube was flooded with bogus videos posted under bogus accounts with keywords like "AATIP" and "Pentagon" and "UFO" in the titles, in order to dilute the data. The intelligence community worked hard to bury and contaminate the story - so clearly the old policy of minimizing the subject is still in place. Having our top fighter pilots and the former Director of the AATIP going public on mainstream news programs is a worst-case scenario for the people running the cover-up.
So no, trying to cast TTSA as some kind of CIA op is a specious allegation and a stupid conspiracy theory that flies in the face of basic reasoning and 70 years of history.
There are plenty of legitimate and sobering criticisms of TTSA. This isn't one of them.