Coates is an interesting and enigmatic woman, and if she is a fraction of what her press says she is, a very discreet person.
She's a former aide to Donald Rumsfeld:
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1288
Victoria C. Gardner Coates is an art historian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Coates
Very interesting National Review profile piece. (I am curious to know how she casually tosses Anthony Blunt's name into conversation):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Coates
"Victoria’s paternal grandfather, Paul Gardner, was a virtual orphan who rose to make a fortune in business. Horatio Alger would blush. On her mother’s side, Victoria is descended from Andrew Gregg Curtin, who, during the Civil War, was governor of Pennsylvania.
Her father, Gene Gardner, started an investment firm in Lancaster. Her mother, Anne, is an executive in the firm. The Gardners are keen art collectors. When a student at Harvard, Mr. Gardner studied art history with Seymour Slive, an expert on Rembrandt and other Dutchmen. Victoria never met Professor Slive, “but he has played a profound role in my life,” she says: “He inspired my father to be interested in art history, and Dad then thought it was worthwhile for me to go into the field.”
When Victoria was six, in 1974, the family went on a trip to Europe. In Amsterdam, they marched straight to the Rijksmuseum, where they saw The Night Watch (Rembrandt). It was the first work of art that made an impact on Victoria. It is one of the ten works in David’s Sling.
#share#For college, Victoria went to Trinity, in Hartford, Conn. She intended to major in political science, but “I was bitten by the art-history bug.” So, she switched. For her master’s degree, she went to Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass. She wrote about Pontormo and the influence on him by Dürer. For her doctorate, she went to the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. She specialized in 16th- and 17th-century Italians and Frenchmen.
Her dissertation? It’s on Camillo Massimo, an Italian cardinal and diplomat who was also a major patron of the arts. Among his beneficiaries was Poussin.
With a smile, I tell Victoria, “I know Poussin chiefly through the Cold War.” It takes her about a second and a half to figure out what I mean: Anthony Blunt, the Cambridge spy, was the preeminent authority on Poussin. Victoria’s undergraduate adviser was himself advised by Blunt…
..,About Obama’s foreign policy, Victoria has much to say, obviously, but she leads with these two sentences: “It’s backwards. It is the opposite of what is productive.” Iran is a prime example, she says…"
Coates was one of Gen. Flynn's "FlynnStones":
https://8kun.top/qresearch/res/2846747.html#2846908
"General Mike Flynn put together a very loyal band of Patriots beginning from his time under BHO at the D.I.A. Those chosen to go over to the NCC, were termed affectionately in many intelligence circles as the “FlynnStones”.
Proud “FlynnStones” members included K.T. McFarland, Gen. Keith Kellogg, Michael Anton, Victoria Coates, Rich Higgins and Flynn’s protege Ezra Cohen-Watnick."
According to this Axios article, Coates has significant ties to the Energy Department. Working at her level she would almost certainly have very high security clearance:
https://www.axios.com/coates-energy-nsc-switch-discussed-cd557fc3-54ce-4328-88fb-f4f4faba7863.html
"Coates has strong working and personal ties to the Energy Department. She advised Perry in his 2012 presidential campaign and regularly coordinates with the department in her NSC role on issues including sanctions and oil and LNG supplies and touching on Iran, Iraq and the Gulf region."
Book agents denied that she was the other book's author:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/uninformed-idiots-book-agents-reject-claim-that-victoria-coates-is-anonymous-author
In the "Follow the Wives" (er, husband) department:
#8168970 at 2020-02-18 03:39:51 (UTC+1)
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victoria coates Husband is George Coates JR.
There is a George Coates listed as a former VP of Numar Oil Field Services. Same guy??
https://www.corporationwiki.com/Pennsylvania/Malvern/george-coates/30367401.aspx
Numar was sold to HALIBURTON in the late 1990s. This could explain the Rumsfeld connection.
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/11/business/360-million-swap-to-send-numar-to-halliburton.html
Quite a weighty career load for even a very good art historian.