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Victor Norris Hamilton wrote an article in Izvestia detailing his work for this organization, three years after the Martin and Mitchell defection from this organization. (15[1])This organization allegedly collaborated with Unit 8200 on Operation Olympic Games which built the computer worm Stuxnet. (-5[1])One director (-5[1])of this organization told Martin Hellman that presenting an algorithm was equivalent to “exporting nuclear weapons to a hostile foreign power.” A predecessor to this organization uncovered Soviet (*) espionage of the Manhattan project as part of its Venona Project. In a 2013 Guardian article, Glenn Greenwald revealed a court order that required Verizon to provide this organization with telephone metadata. A former contractor for this organization was granted asylum in Russia after leaking tens of thousands of its documents. For 10 points, name this intelligence agency which employed (10[1])Edward Snowden. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: National Security Agency
<GT, American History>
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