Career U.S. intelligence official who spent 31 years at the CIA and ODNI, including six years leading the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. Named in the congressional record in 2024 by journalist George Knapp, alongside former Lockheed Martin executive James Ryder, in connection with an unconfirmed, anonymously sourced allegation that he blocked an attempted transfer of alleged non-human materials out of Lockheed Martin.
Glenn Gaffney spent 31 years in the U.S. intelligence community, including founding and directing the CIA's cyber-operations component, serving in a senior role at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence overseeing intelligence-community collection programs, leading the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology for six years, and founding the CIA's Talent Center. After leaving government service around 2017 he joined In-Q-Tel, the CIA-affiliated venture-capital firm, as Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow, later co-founding its Emerge initiative. Gaffney became a named figure in UAP reporting after journalist George Knapp entered his name, along with that of former Lockheed Martin Space Systems vice president James Ryder, into the congressional record during a 2024 hearing. According to reporting by Liberation Times, anonymous sources allege that Gaffney, while heading the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology, blocked an attempt to transfer alleged non-human materials out of Lockheed Martin. Gaffney has not publicly responded to the allegation, which remains unconfirmed and attributed to anonymous sources rather than established fact.