# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-gaffney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:54.798Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-gaffney"
name: "Frank Gaffney"
slug: "frank-gaffney"
description: "Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is an American defense policy analyst and founder of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He founded the CSP in 1988, serving as its president until 2023, and thereafter as executive chairman. 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 was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1987. In later years, he has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist."
tagline: "American anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Gaffney_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump