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The internal agency memo says a civilian employee has resigned after being reprimanded for giving Snowden access to his password

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An internal National Security Agency memo offers the most detailed public account yet of how former contractor Edward Snowden obtained access to the agencys vast database of secrets. The memo, provided to members of Congress and obtained by NBC News, lends support to reports that Snowden stole a colleagues password, something Snowden has publicly denied.

According to the memo, at Mr. Snowdens request, the civilian entered his PKI password at Mr. Snowdens computer terminal. Unbeknownst to the civilian, Mr. Snowden was able to capture the password, allowing him even greater access to classified information.

The NSA says it immediately suspended the civilian employees security clearance, then revoked it fully in November last year. The civilian was not aware that Mr. Snowden intended to unlawfully disclose classified information, the memo said. However, by sharing his PKI certificate, he failed to comply with security obligations. The man resigned from employment with the NSA in January.

The memo also identifies an active duty member of the military and a contractor whose access to NSA information has been restricted after they were implicated in Snowdens actions, NBC reports No further details on their cases were offered.

The memo comes after a Reuters report that Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers to give him their passwords. NBC News report contradicts statements made by Snowden in a public chat in January, during which, responding to that accusation, he said the Reuters report that put this out there was simply wrong. I never stole any passwords, nor did I trick an army of co-workers.

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Did Edward Snowden have help?

U.S. investigators have concluded that former national security contractor Edward Snowden collected some of the huge cache of surveillance documents he has disclosed by copying the password of a coworker who since has resigned.

Snowden has said that he did not steal the secure passwords of colleagues at the National Security Agency outpost where he worked on the Pacific island U.S. state of Hawaii. But the NSA said in a memo to a congressional panel this week that at Snowden's request, a civilian NSA worker allowed the contractor to use his encrypted digital key on Snowden's computer.

The NSA memo said Snowden then was able to capture the password, giving him even greater access to classified information on the agency's computer network.

The agency said the coworker acknowledged the security breach last June, but was not aware that Snowden planned to leak details about the extensive U.S. surveillance programs.

The clandestine spy agency said it revoked the coworker's security clearance, and he resigned last month after the NSA said it planned to fire him.

The NSA memo said an active duty member of the military and a private contractor also had their security access restricted as part of the continuing investigation of what officials say is one of the biggest U.S. security breaches ever.

NSA officials say that Snowden stole 1.7 million documents about U.S. spy programs, leaking many of them to journalists who have written numerous stories over the last several months about the surveillance.

The 30-year-old Snowden is living in asylum in Russia. American authorities have been unsuccessful in their efforts to extradite him to stand trial on espionage charges in the United States.

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Edward Snowden's breach of NSA data prompted a sweeping internal investigation into how he managed to pull off his mission. According to an agency memo acquired by the folks at NBC News, Snowden managed to access some of the data in part by stealing one of his coworker's passwords. That coworker has since been stripped of his security clearance and has resigned.

According to NBC News, its document also shows a contractor and an active member of the military being banned from NSA facilities due to being "implicated" in having done things that could have ended up giving Snowden access to information. Their employers are now reportedly reviewing their (presumably employment) "status".

The memo's account isn't terribly detailed, according to NBC, but going by the information it does detail, Snowden got one of his civilian contractor coworkers to enter his password "onto Snowden's computer terminal. Unbeknownst to the civilian, Mr. Snowden was able to capture the password, allowing him even greater access to classified information."

This is the first time something of a more official nature has surfaced on the matter, but not the first time this song has been sung. Back in November -- the same month the memo indicates the coworker was stripped of his security clearance -- anonymous sources told Reuters that Snowden had tricked multiple coworkers into providing their log in details, and that "a handful" of NSA employees have since been "removed from their assignments."

Following that accussation, Snowden denied stealing his coworkers passwords during the Ask Snowden online question-and-answer session that took place last month.

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