>One can always suppose the identified individual is a double, triple, quadruple agent.

yes in general it's not good reasoning but given that in this case we know that we're talking about someone who tried to stay anonymous and comes out of the cypherpunk culture we can pretty much assume that if they've been interviewed they've denied it.

It's not like that accusation is random, it's that this is what the real Nakamoto, whoever it is, would have said