Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh
American spy for the USSR
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| Intro | American spy for the USSR | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Engineer Aerospace engineer Spy | |
| Work field | Engineering Science | |
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| Birth | 1946 | |
| Age | 79 years |
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Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is an aerospace engineer who was sentenced in 1985 after being convicted of trying to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
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He was born in 1945.
Cavanaugh was arrested at a hotel in Commerce, California, in December 1984, by FBI agents posing as Soviet spies. Cavanaugh, who worked at Northrop, was debt-ridden, undergoing a divorce, and was "willing to take $25,000 American dollars in cash for technology that cost the United States billions to develop". $25,000 in 1984 is equivalent to $62,000 in 2019.
He was released from prison on March 1, 2001.