OUTWARDLY, he was a dashing young professor at Edinburgh University and one of Scotland's most highly-respected psychiatrists, but Professor Alexander Kennedy hid a dark wartime secret until just months before his early death.
OUTWARDLY, he was a dashing young professor at Edinburgh University and one of Scotland's most highly-respected psychiatrists, but Professor Alexander Kennedy hid a dark wartime secret until just months before his early death.
Captured Germans were interrogated by Prof Alexander Kennedy Main photograph: Getty
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by Judith Duffy
A new book by Ian Cobain has uncovered the murky past of the distinguished academic and medical practitioner and details how Kennedy used brainwashing techniques on Nazi spies during the second world war in an attempt to turn them into double agents.
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