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CARACAS, Venezuela.-The Homeland Security United States (USA), with the help of the embassy of this country in Venezuela, spied internal communications, emails, employee profiles and other data from state oil de Venezuela (PDVSA).

The document, dated March 2011 with the "top secret" label, was provided by the former agent of the Agency of Homeland Security (NSA) Edward Snowden, and obtained exclusively by the television network Telesur and website The Intercept.

It also details the analyst said penetrated the internal network PDVSA sometime in late 2010. That specialist NSA, as well as email traffic, found more than 10,000 profiles of employees with their email addresses, numbers phone as well as information including user names and passwords of more than 900 employees of PDVSA.

Among the profiles found is that of Rafael Ramirez, president of Venezuela's state between 2004 and 2014, currently representing the South American nation to the United Nations.

The company was a priority for the division undisclosed NSA; analyst who writes the document reported in the text "Straight Talk" his boss "PDVSA wanted information at the highest possible levels of business especially, the president and members of the board."

"After visiting the website of PDVSA, where I clicked on Leadership and wrote the names of the directors who would become my goals," analyst Pinwale entered names in the main database of the NSA, which consisting of previously intercepted digital communications.

Following leads

Hacking computer system PDVSA began from Washington, in the central building of the National Security Agency (NSA), according to information posted on Telesur.

After that, with the cooperation of the US Embassy in Venezuela, they verify that they were within the true system state oil itself NSA and CIA agents used within the diplomatic mission, located a few kilometers.
This report provided by Snowden was written by an agent of the NSA in Washington that operated with F6 group in Caracas.

F6 is the code for a joint operation between the CIA NSA known as the Special Collection Service, based in Beltsville, Maryland (northeast), whereby agents posing as diplomats in dozens of US embassies around the world, including Caracas, Bogota and Brasilia.

According to the article, this is how the US They intercepted cell phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. F6 at the US Embassy in

Caracas took an active role in all espionage activities mentioned in the document of the NSA: "I have been coordinating with Caracas," says the analyst of the agency, "who have been examining their environment and are entering the results in xkeyscore".

Xkeyscore, according to information from the intercept, process a "flow of Internet traffic of fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the communication network of the world," storing data for 72 hours in a "rolling buffer" and " collecting countless internet searches, emails, documents, user names and passwords of people. "

Why PDVSA?

PDVSA, founded in 1976, is the leader of this South American nation and the world's fifth largest oil; represents the largest source of state revenues thanks to oil royalties, recovery rate of this natural asset that lies underground.

For a long time, the Venezuelan state has been a goal of the intelligence agencies of the United States and the subject of intense scrutiny by US diplomats.

A cable dated Feb. 17, 2009 sent to Washington by the US ambassador in Caracas and obtained by WikiLeaks shows that PDVSA employees were interrogated for visa interviews on the internal operations of the company.

The embassy was particularly interested in the strategy of PDVSA in connection with the dispute over the nationalization of the oil project in Venezuela Cerro Black in 2007 and billions of dollars in assets of US oil company ExxonMobil.

In this new leaked document, the US intelligence analyst identifies four reasons why PDVSA is an object of espionage:

"Since the strike (sabotage) of oil in December 2002 to February 2003 sector PDVSA has been serving the Bolivarian Revolution of President (Hugo) Chavez, financing everything from national programs to geopolitical efforts Chavez . "

Also "understand PDVSA, is to understand the economic heart of Venezuela," the country "has one of the largest reserves of oil and natural gas in the world", and revenue from the oil sector are "roughly a third of the Product Gross domestic "and" more than half of government revenues. "

How did Telesur information?

Last September, the company contacted the intercept Telesur English team to report on PDVSA spying by the NSA.

The excontratista NSA, Edward Snowden, gave the company Telesur and The Intercept, a dossier espionage reveals several officials of PDVSA, by the North American country.

In this connection, the director of the Telesur website in English, Pablo Vivanco, said that last September could contact the company founder The Intercept, who informed them that they had direct communication with Snowden and was interested in making a joint publication this news through the media and television platform.