Russia’s FSB security service announced on Friday that U.S. citizen Eugene Spector was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing biotechnology secrets for the Pentagon.

“The American, acting in the interests of the Pentagon and a commercial organization affiliated with it, collected and transferred to a foreign party various information on biotechnological and biomedical topics, including those constituting state secrets, for the subsequent creation by the U.S. of a system of high-speed genetic screening of the Russian population,” the FSB said.