Thomas Patrick Cavanagh

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<p>Cavanagh was arrested at a hotel in <a href="/facts/Commerce,_California/uS7mBchl">Commerce, California</a>, in December 1984, by <a href="/facts/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation/UY93jwX6">FBI</a> agents posing as Soviet spies. Cavanagh worked at <a href="/facts/Northrop_Corporation/X7DPKcx1">Northrop</a>, 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.
</p><p>He was sentenced to life in prison.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> He was released on parole on March 1, 2001.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Engineer in Stealth Secrets Case Given Life Term". The New York Times. 25 May 1985. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/25/us/engineer-in-stealth-secrets-case-given-life-term.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/25/us/engineer-in-stealth-secrets-case-given-life-term.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Engineer Pleads Guilty to Espionage : He Tried to Sell 'Stealth' Bomber Secrets to Undercover Agents - Los Angeles Times". Los Angeles Times. 15 March 1985. <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-15-me-35014-story.html" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-15-me-35014-story.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh". Locate a Federal Inmate. Federal Bureau of Prisons. <a href="https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/" target="_blank">https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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