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Documents found on accused spy Grigory Pasko confirm that he was collecting data on state secrets — not ecological subjects — a top navy officer said recently.

Rear Admiral Gherman Ugryumov, chief of the Pacific Fleet’s branch of the Federal Security Service (FSB), said in a press conference documents found on the jailed Boyevaya Vakhta reporter and navy captain prove he was indeed passing secrets on to Japan and not working as a journalist when he was arrested Nov. 20 on charges of high treason.

According to the Fleet’s FSB branch chief, Pasko had been selling documents to representatives of a foreign organization. The gave Pasko a monthly allowance in exchange for working as a consultant in military issues. He received up to $1,000 apiece for documents, depending on how valuable they were, Ugryumov said.

Several people have testified that they paid the reporter for his records, Ugryumov said.

Pasko allegedly stored and collected state secrets, according to documents dating back to 1996. But this information did not include ecological information or matters concerning nuclear waste dumps or fears that tankers filled with radioactive waste might sink.

More than 100 people have been interrogated in the case, including a few foreigners, the admiral said. About half are media staff, and some may end up as defendants in the case — charged with collecting information containing Russia’s state secrets.

Ugryumov said 11 officers passed classified information to Pasko, but refused to say whether they did it for money. Investigations have taken place in both Vladivostok and Moscow.

Pasko refuses to give testimony in the investigation, and he demands that he be released under an affidavit that he not leave the city. But Navy counter-espionage officers fear he would interfere with an investigation if at large.