Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is an aerospace engineer who was sentenced in 1985 after being convicted of trying to sell stealth bomber secrets to the

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Cavanagh was arrested at a hotel in

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, in December 1984, by

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agents posing as Soviet spies. Cavanagh worked at Northrop, and at the time was undergoing a divorce, and was overly indebted. He tried to sell classified technology and information for $25,000. The sum in 1984 is . He was sentenced to life in prison. He was released on March 1, 2001.

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