Since yesterday, I've been reading through Ann Diamond's two blogs with utter fascination. They include Mother of Darkness, from which the posting I linked to at the beginning of this thread comes from, and Driving the trance Canada.

Diamond is a very good writer but she seems to be living in a paranoid fantasy land. She is obsessed with Leonard Cohen and many of her eyewitness stories about him are not true according to a poet I know in Montreal who knows both of them.

And I really find many of her stories to be unbelievable, including that Kris Kristofferson was a CIA operative responsible for Janis Joplin.

Diamond also believes that her late father was reincarnated as one of the Backstreet Boys (who are under the mind control of Disney, a CIA company).

It is true that the CIA was involved in some gruesome experiments in Montreal (see this article from the Montreal Gazette), there is nothing beyond Ann Diamond's writing to suggest any connection with Leonard Cohen.