Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Subject: FW Re: FYI - Read before you make assumptions and draw judgments
To: Stephen Gianelli <stephengianelli@gmail.com>, Ann Diamond <anndiamond2011@gmail.com>, "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, ": Division, Criminal" <Criminal.Division@usdoj.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>, MollyHale <MollyHale@ucia.gov>, nsapao <nsapao@nsa.gov>, fsb <fsb@fsb.ru>, rbyucaipa <rbyucaipa@yahoo.com>, khuvane <khuvane@caa.com>, blourd <blourd@caa.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, a <anderson.cooper@cnn.com>, wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, Mick Brown <mick.brown@telegraph.co.uk>, "glenn.greenwald" <glenn.greenwald@firstlook.org>, Harriet Ryan <harriet.ryan@latimes.com>, "hailey.branson" <hailey.branson@latimes.com>, Stan Garnett <stan.garnett@gmail.com>, mike.feuer@lacity.org, "mayor.garcetti" <mayor.garcetti@lacity.org>, Opla-pd-los-occ <OPLA-PD-LOS-OCC@ice.dhs.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, Whistleblower <whistleblower@judiciary-rep.senate.gov>, Attacheottawa <AttacheOttawa@ci.irs.gov>, tips@radaronline.com
CIA,
Is that what happened? MKULTRA forced Cohen into this activity, right? Gianelli has gone bonkers. They must be really concerned about a possible third Phil Spector trial. MKULTRA must have made Cohen engage in this conduct, no?
Kelley
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2013@gmail.com> wrote:
Gianelli,You appear to have gone psychotic. Read Ann Diamond's declaration. It was signed under the oath of perjury. Would you like to discuss Cohen's statements that he was in CIA's MKULTRA program? That's not Ann Diamond or my problem. Neither are his stories about Bay of Pigs, Yom Kippur War, etc. Since you appear to be Cohen's unofficial lawyer, and now out of control, it makes sense that you would attempt to slander and defame Ann Diamond over Leonard Cohen's own statements. Did MKULTRA make Leonard Cohen commit criminal tax fraud, steal from me and others, embezzle nearly $6.7 million in TH assets, withhold IRS required tax and corporate information, funnel income off-shore, force his daughter to make public statements in front of Freda Guttman's child at Concordia, fabricate narratives, engage in egregious perjury?Try to get a grip on reality, criminal.Kelley Lynch
ANN DIAMOND DECLARATION - SUBMITTED TO LA SUPERIOR COURT:
DECLARATION OF ANNE JULIA MCLEAN
I, ANNE JULIA MCLEAN, declare:
1.
I am a citizen of Canada. I also am known by the literary
pseudonym Ann Diamond. I
have known Leonard Cohen for approximately thirty-eight years. I
have known Kelley Lynch since approximately 2008. I am over the age of 18
years. I have personal knowledge of the facts contained in this
declaration and if called upon to testify I could and would testify competently
as to the truth of the facts stated herein.
2.
In May 2008 I received an email from Kelley Lynch, who was then living
in Colorado.
I had read the 2005 news stories alleging she had stolen Cohen’s
retirement fund. Knowing Cohen, I had always wondered about her side of the
story. Over the next few weeks we corresponded. She came across as sensible and
rational, but clearly furious about the accusations of embezzlement which she
denied. She was sending out hundreds of emails to the media, FBI, DOJ, IRS etc.
and copied some of our personal emails to her internet audience. Since her
working relationship with Cohen in 1988 began at approximately the time I
stopped seeing him, she filled in some blanks and provided some insight into
problems I had subsequently had. I identified with her to the extent that it
seemed we had both been close to Cohen at one time, but had serious
disagreements with him. When we ‘mutinied’ he used his personal power,
oratorical skills and media contacts to damage us professionally and personally.
Because Lynch’s side of the story had been ignored in the media, I ended up
writing an account (“Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch”) which I posted on my
blog in August 2008. Two weeks later I received a letter from Robert Kory
demanding I take down the blog or be sued for libel. Because I was far away in
Greece, and did not know Kelley Lynch personally, I felt I had to comply.
Kelley continued circulating the text of my article over the internet and many
people have now read it. A paraphrased version appears in Sylvie Simmons’
biography of Cohen, I’m Your Man,
where my article[Ann Diamo1] is credited in the footnotes. See Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part
hereof (“Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch”).
3.
I met Leonard Cohen through a mutual acquaintance in Montreal in
November 1977,
when I was 26 and he was 43. He was still married, but legally
separated, from his wife Suzanne with whom he had two children. Leonard Cohen
was known as a ladies’ man around our neighbourhood of Montreal, but he had
just brought out a new record, Death of a Ladies’ Man (with Phil Spector) and a
book of poems (Death of a Lady’s Man) which seemed to send a message he was
turning over a new leaf. We saw each other a few times over the next two years,
on occasions when he came into Montreal from Los Angeles. Our relationship was
more than a friendship. There was a strong sense of personal connection. Early
on, I realized I was interested in him as a mentor or teacher, not necessarily
as a lover or boyfriend. Soon after we
met, he introduced me to his “old friend” Hazel Field, a woman about my age,
who acted as if she was in charge of Leonard’s relationships with women. This
resulted in my seeing him mostly in private, rather than joining his circle of
friends.
4.
In 1979 I travelled to Greece, where he had invited me to meet him on
the island of
Hydra. I was on Hydra for three and a half months, thanks to a small
arts grant from the Canadian government. In 1980, I received another arts grant
and was on Hydra writing a novel from December to September 1981. Leonard was
also there for the entire year. In the fishbowl of Greek island life, I
observed his complicated relationships with women younger than myself. However
when I went out with other men, he began telling me we were getting married.
This became a “theme”, although it seemed more like a way to make sure I didn’t
wander off. He spoke with great conviction, making it hard to know what to
believe.
5.
In 1982 he suggested I go to Mount Baldy Zen Center, outside Los
Angeles, to meet
Zen Master Sasaki Roshi. By then I was ready to move on and end our
relationship, which had become ambiguous and confusing. He had hinted he was
interested in sado-masochistic sex, which did not interest me. I was disturbed
by his secret world that involved lots of deception and emotional cruelty. The
Roshi (who initially told me I should “marry Leonard Cohen”) was helpful and
encouraged me to think Leonard was still a “good friend.”
6.
I returned to Montreal where a friend had offered me an apartment he was
giving up.
It was small, pleasant, with incredibly low rent. My friend was not
aware he was living next door to Leonard Cohen. Montreal’s economy was
depressed and low rent was a big factor in allowing me to survive on a
freelance income over the 12 years I lived there, especially after I quit my
teaching job. During those years I saw Leonard only occasionally, usually by
accident in the street, but sometimes he phoned or I phoned him. Our
relationship was distant but cordial, but there also were a few tense
incidents. His daughter Lorca was a concern. At age 10 she asked me to help her
write a book about her father. When Leonard found out he banned me from talking
to her. Another source of tension was Hazel Field’s presence on the block.
Hazel is a famous gossip and spread damaging rumours about me that no one would
ever repeat to me. Leonard remained generally friendly to me and once assured
me if I was the subject of gossip it was just due to “jealousy.”
7.
In March 1992, for the Montreal Gazette I interviewed Leonard’s close
friend,
Canadian poet Irving Layton on the occasion of his 80th
birthday. Before I left Layton remarked that he was pleasantly surprised to
meet me and “find out you’re nothing like the violent, psychotic woman I’ve
been hearing about all these years.” He first denied, but later admitted the
source was Leonard Cohen. This came as a shock. I sent Leonard an angry fax,
then regretted it and phoned to apologize. It was the first and only time I
ever telephoned his Los Angeles number, but he accused me of being the
anonymous caller who had been harassing him for weeks. He avoided answering my
question. I was left with the impression that he had told certain people I was
a “dangerous psychotic” while allowing me to think nothing was amiss. From then
on, I realized he had a higher-than-average capacity to deceive people, even
those he called ‘friends.’ Perhaps he liked pandering to people’s fantasies, or
maybe he liked creating chaos. Or maybe this was his way of controlling people
by divide-and-rule.
8.
In autumn 1993 his daughter Lorca, then 19, was enrolled in the BA
program at
Concordia. She was living in Leonard’s building on the corner of our
street with a group of her friends. Soon after she arrived she knocked on my
door and asked if she could speak to me about something important. I hadn’t
seen her in five years, and she looked drastically different from the last
time: she was covered with tattoos and piercings and had dyed her hair black
and purple. I had a deadline to meet, so I asked her to come back another time
but she never did. A few months later I met her with Leonard in the park. She
was returning to Los Angeles. Later I was told she had overdosed on heroin and
had dropped out of university, but I had been unaware of all these problems
when they were happening.
9.
In summer 1995, Freda Guttman, who had been Leonard’s first girlfriend
when they
were both teenagers, stopped me in the street and asked point-blank if I
thought Leonard had molested his daughter from the age of four, as Lorca had
told her friends. Based on things I had witnessed over 8 years, I thought it
was possible. I went home and didn’t get out of bed for two days – the only
time in my life that I experienced that kind of emotional paralysis. I suddenly
realized the wild, extreme stories circulating about me were probably a tactic
to discredit and isolate me in case I ever talked about Lorca. In fact, I knew
very little about Lorca because I almost never saw her, but Leonard feared she
had confided in me. He had set me up as a female bogeyman as a useful
distraction. The stories about me had spread far and wide, thanks to Hazel’s
media contacts including with a gossip columnist. The publishing industry was
going through a major spasm from which it has never recovered and I become one
of many journalist-casualties.
10.
In May 1996, I travelled to Los Angeles and stayed at Rinzai Ji Zen
Center for six
months. I had a grant to write a novel (Dead White Males, DC Books,
2000), which I did while staying in a house across the street from the Zen
Center. I also hoped to talk to Leonard and resolve some issues – I later
realized this was naïve. This visit to Roshi’s centre was different from other
times when I stayed as a practicing, rent-paying resident. Many of the monks
and nuns seemed to have abandoned the Roshi (then 89) and gravitated to Leonard
Cohen, who had moved into a cabin on Mount Baldy. I gathered he was seen by
some as a possible dharma successor to the Roshi. The atmosphere had also
changed for the worse. After Leonard spoke to her about me, a nun rushed at me
in the kitchen and physically pushed me out the door. During the six months I
was there, I never made a phone call or any attempt to speak to Leonard about
the unresolved business between us that included child abuse and destructive
slander. The atmosphere was instantly so tense, I decided to do nothing. I rode my bike around Los Angeles and worked
on the novel. Nevertheless, Leonard reported to the center director that I was
now “phoning him every day from Culver City.” This was not the first time he
assumed I was harassing him when I was not: I didn’t even know where Culver City
was. Without any evidence, people believed Leonard. His word is the Gold
Standard for Truth with his followers. Wherever he goes, from Greece to
Montreal to Los Angeles, he finds people who are willing, even eager, to work
for him without compensation, and will obey his instructions blindly in return
for the honour of knowing him. His persuasive gifts and charm are well-known
and can be hard to resist.
11.
Those who mutiny, like Kelley Lynch and me, receive the opposite
treatment. Nothing
I say or do has been a match for the cliché of the “Scorned Woman” – or
“jilted ex” who goes on a rampage to avenge her rejection. As Goebbels said, if
you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth. I have learned the hard way
that Leonard Cohen is a very gifted and skilled fabricator who does not back
down even when confronted with evidence of his lying. His manipulative skills
are exceptional and almost suggest early training in psychological warfare,
including strategies such as putting people in “double-bind” situations so they
will discredit themselves. As a friend,
he can be very kind and generous, but soon becomes utterly fixated on control.
He demands total loyalty. He is a master manipulator. Once he has decided you
are too “mutinous” and a potential future threat, he becomes ruthless and will
go to great lengths to see you neutralized and destroyed. Like his neo-con
heroes, he believes in and practices “pre-emptive strikes.”
12.
In 2001, I wrote a book-length blog which I posted on line. This was due
to my being
targeted for years by false stories that I had stalked and harassed
Cohen who allegedly did not even know me. I felt my 20-year history with him
made for a memoir which was also a documentary of the post-60s era and the
transition to conservative values, in which Leonard Cohen had played a part. I
posted this 300-page, detailed narrative and added internal links which were
hard to navigate. I installed hit counters on every chapter so I know with
certainty of 6000+ who found the book, only about 70 read to the end where I
mentioned my chance meeting with Freda Guttman who repeated Lorca’s allegations
that her father had molested her. In summer 2003, I received a letter from
Leonard’s lawyer Van Penick asking me to remove the paragraph, which I did. A
few months later, I deleted the entire blog.
13.
Did Kelley Lynch rob Leonard Cohen of millions, and if so, how did she
end up
penniless and bit homeless? I can’t believe Leonard Cohen – a shrewd
judge of character -- would employ a personal manager for 17 years, form a close
relationship with her and her family, put his children in her care, and appoint
her to deal with his daily business, unless she was diligent, extremely
intelligent and impeccable in her conduct. His version requires us to believe
he is a trusting, incompetent fool, which he is not. In my view, baseless
slander and outrageous gossip have played a huge role in what should have been
a straightforward legal matter.
14.
In my experience Leonard Cohen draws on a pool of unstable, addicted,
celebrity-
worshipping acquaintances who serve as his unofficial bodyguards and
‘back-up band’ to his fanciful tales and ambiguous statements. Long ago, I came
to the conclusion there are two distinct Leonard Cohens. The secret Leonard
Cohen has doubtful ethics, and lives off the brilliance and charm of the public
personality.
I
declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that
the foregoing is true and correct.
Dated: 25
April 2015 _______________________________
ANNE
JULIA MCLEAN
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephen R. Gianelli <stephengianelli@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:11 AMSubject: Subject: FW Re: FYI - Read before you make assumptions and draw judgments
To: kelley.lynch.2013@gmail.comFYI---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ann Diamond <anndiamond2011@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: FYI - Read before you make assumptions and draw judgments
To: "STEPHEN R. GIANELLI" <stephengianelli@gmail.com>These emails were all written after her hospitalisation. Various drugs can do this to a person. I never believed she was "never served" so this does nothing to change my thinking.[Message truncated]