Hmm. Interesting story. I have no opinion about it one way or another, but it's interesting. I very much like Leonard Cohen's work...and, yes...he is undeniably strange, as are many people in the entertainment business. This is stuff we can speculate about all we like, but I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

I suggest a reading of Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" for some insight into the mind control experiments that took place in Canada under the direction of the CIA...and which greatly damaged many of the "patients".