Normally there are only a handful of employees on the payroll at each major company that exposes the US or US government to risk.

It is not often the Executives or Legal even know, but sometimes they did. AT&T bent over backwards to help.

This is standard behavior by the CIA and NSA, and has been for a long time.

https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-documents-suggest-clo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-ns...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/us-tech-giants...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...