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Thomas Patrick Cavanagh
American attempted spy for the USSR in 1984 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is an aerospace engineer who was sentenced in 1985 after being convicted of trying to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
Biography
Cavanagh was arrested at a hotel in Commerce, California, in December 1984, by FBI agents posing as Soviet spies. Cavanagh worked at Northrop, and at the time was undergoing a divorce, and was heavily in debt. He tried to sell classified technology and information for $25,000, equivalent to $76,000 in 2024.
He was sentenced to life in prison.[1][2] He was released on parole on March 1, 2001.[3]
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