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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.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 25000 American dollars in cash for technology that cost the United States billions to develop.