Frank Gaffney
American defense policy analyst (born 1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frank J. Gaffney Jr. (born April 5, 1953) is an American defense policy analyst who founded the Center for Security Policy (CSP), serving as its first president, and a former presidential appointee under President Ronald Reagan. He has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist.[2] In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for the federal government in multiple posts, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy from 1983 to 1987, and seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration. He founded the CSP in 1988, serving as its president until 2023 and thereafter as executive chairman.[3]
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Born | Frank J. Gaffney Jr. (1953-04-05) April 5, 1953 (age 71) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (BS) Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (MA) |
Occupation | Defense policy analyst |
Known for | Counter-jihad, popular conspiracy theories, conservative political commentary |
Title | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (1983–87) |
Awards | Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (1987) Zionist Organization of America's Louis Brandeis Award (2003)[1] |
In 1987, he was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service