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May 24, 1985 · Describing the crime as “the most grievous one can commit,” a Los Angeles federal court judge Thursday sentenced Thomas Patrick Cavanagh, the Northrop Corp. aerospace engineer who tried to sell...
Cavanagh was arrested Dec. 18 after meeting three times with FBI agents David A. Silva and Daniel P. McLaughlin, who posed as Soviet spies interested in obtaining information about the...
1984 - THOMAS PATRICK CAVANAGH, an engineering specialist for Northrop Corporation’s Advanced Systems Division holding a Secret clearance, was arrested on 18 December 1984 and charged with attempting to sell classified documents on Stealth aircraft technology to the Soviets. It is reported that Cavanagh's attempt to arrange a meeting with a ...
Dec 18, 1984 · Thomas Patrick Cavanagh, 40, of Downey, Calif., was arrested at a Hyatt hotel near downtown Los Angeles. He came to the meeting armed with a .45 caliber automatic pistol and classified...
May 23, 2012 · 1985: Aerospace engineer Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of trying to sell secrets of the stealth bomber to the Soviet Union. Cavanaugh was...
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 $73,000 in 2023.
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Dec 28, 1984 · Cavanagh, who was employed at the Northrop Corp. facility in Pico Rivera, Calif., was arrested Dec. 18 at a Los Angeles area hotel when he allegedly passed a briefcase filed with secret...
