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- ↑ Long, Tony (2012-05-23). "May 23, 1985: Selling Stealth Secrets to the Reds Comes at a High Price". Wired. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ↑ "Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh". Locate a Federal Inmate. Federal Bureau of Prisons.