Yeah, but the way most intelligence services work is that it's not like the employees show up at the NSA building every day and sit in a cubicle doing encryption research. At least with the CIA and DOD they just put civilian academic researchers on the payroll and get "first dibs" on new stuff and also get to direct their research. The CIA does this with journalists too. They still work at the NY Times etc. but the CIA sees all their information first and decides what will get printed and what will stay private.