Thomas Patrick Cavanagh
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". 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, Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "["..
He was sentenced to life in prison.[1][2] He was released on parole on March 1, 2001.[3]
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