Whatever you mean by "cypherpunks"...If you're talking about the first ones, or the people who created such movement, I don't know enough about them, yet, to know if they were part of some CIA front or not...
But, concerning the modern-day ones, this is (mainly) what I think about such phenomenon: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-use-tor-trisquel#comment-26804
