Caracas, Nov 19 (EFE).– The Venezuelan government on Thursday delivered a protest note to the United States after the publication of documents showing that the National Security Agency spied on employees of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.

The note was delivered to the charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Lee McClenny, by Deputy Foreign Minister Alejandro Fleming.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday ordered a “comprehensive” review of relations with the United States and the formal protest notification by his government concerning the spying revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The document provided by Snowden, published on Wednesday by the Caracas-based cable television network Telesur, says that the NSA spied on hundreds of PDVSA executives, including Rafael Ramirez, who ran the company from 2004-2014 and is now Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations.

The document says that private information was gathered from at least 10,000 PDVSA employee profiles, including email addresses and telephone numbers.

In addition, the NSA analyst who drafted the document says that he had access to information from another 900 profiles that included, among other data, email passwords.

The analyst says that, during the project, which was carried out in late 2010, he coordinated his work with U.S. intelligence and security agencies and “with Caracas.”

Venezuela and the United States have maintained diplomatic relations at the level of charge d’affaires since a mutual expulsion of ambassadors in 2010. EFE