>this is a new level of conspiracy theory.

This is a new level of denial, I mean you should be outrage if your CIA is not doing it's job , this is why you americans pay them, to spy on foreign governments and companies, if something changes in the direction that would disadvatae US then blackmailing, killing and other methods are required by the CIA dudes to do.

At least you can use your logic and think

1 CIA job is to spy

2 Google/Apple has juicy content of CIA targets

3 CIA wants that content, they could send dudes in black at night int he server room to grab the data or they can just ask for it, since if are foreign people they have no rights, even if an employee would see this since is an US citizen he will also need to respect US laws and shut up or he will be in trouble.

Blackmail is new? Of course providing the opportunity for blackmail is one of the primary concerns when foreign actors exfiltrate data. Blackmail is a lot older than the cold war, and has been going on as long as people have been doing embarrassing things.

It would be absolutely foolish to think anything other than that there are many spies for various governments working in telecom and other IT companies. It is likely their primary target, even before infiltrating government positions.

Well, them reading this data is a known fact, mostly from Snowden's leaks.

Blackmail happening is harder to prove, but it would approach incompetence if the NSA at least found no opportunity to blackmail someone using the data we know they have access to.