YOU published four letters on Rudolf Hess (August 28). Professor Shaw has already discussed his May 1941 experiences with me. However the following comments are relevant to the letters printed.

Ivone Kirkpatrick in May 1941 was the BBC's senior representative to the Political Warfare Executive, effectively SOEI (black propaganda) co-operating through a central committee with MI6 and the Ministry of Information under Duff-Cooper. They controlled a rigid censorship of all matters in the media concerning Hess. SOE2 was the division for liquidation, kidnap, counterfeit, weapons, etc.

Evidence exists to show that both Kirkpatrick and Duff-Cooper were well aware that the Eaglesham man was not Hess. The published diary of Chips Channon indicates that the Duke of Hamilton did go to Hess's flat in Munich.

The published September 1941 dental records of Eaglesham man show no gap between the two front teeth, a bad mistake by British Intelligence. The real Hess was buck-toothed with a large gap in his front teeth seen clearly in May 1941 photographs.

It is published that the May 13, 1941, Buchanan Castle Hospital X-rays of the man's chest showed no scar tissue from bullet wounds, internal or external scar tissue. Hess was shot through the left lung by a rifle bullet. Ilsa Hess in a letter to Hugh Thomas confirmed that her husband had large bullet scars to the front and back of his chest.

A June 1941 book on Hess, by a famous British publisher and authored by a man who had worked from 1934-38 with the German Propaganda Ministry in Berlin, states quite clearly on page 39, ''shot through the lung in the last war''.

Anyone who mattered in the Britain of 1941 would have read that book. The man in Spandau had no bullet-wound scars, internal or external. Such scars never go away. I have small stitched leg scars from 1942, still quite clearly visible. The man at Eaglesham and Spandau was not the real Hess, it's as simple as that.

Britain ran the best live doppelganger of the Second World War, actor Clifton James, who conned thousands in 1944 into believing he was General Montgomery. We also ran the best dead doppelganger of that war, Major Martin of the Marines, floated ashore in 1943 from a British submarine on to Spain, to con the Germans into thinking we would not land on Sicily. Duff-Cooper was deeply involved in the 1943 exploit.

Mr Allan must read the Scotsman of February 27, 1988, and see the reconstruction of the Eaglesham plane at RAF Sealand, Chester not Carlisle, as I mistakenly put in my original letter. The plane belly-landed reasonably well with wings and tailplane intact and the cockpit then burned out. It was cut up in the field for transport, hence the mess seen in press photographs of May 13, 1941.

It should not have been cut up or thrown onto a pile at Carluke, hence the desperate effort to get it back out of the pile for reconstruction.

On mind control, the subject of Mr Orr's letter, the chief psychiatrist to the British Army controlled Eaglesham man in a lunatic asylum at Abergavenny. David Irving's book on Hess, based on the diaries of the staff, has on page 251 the medical staff telling the man, ''They can restore his memory with an injection''.

A colleague of the chief psychiatrist was Dr Ewan Cameron (ex-Glasgow University), a leading psychiatrist in Canada and eventually the USA, co-operating in the Second World War secretly with Allan Dulles of OSS in an analysis of the leading Nazis.

At Nuremberg he was told by Dulles that it was believed that Churchill had liquidated Hess and replaced him with a doppelganger. All Cameron had to do was look at the man's chest and see if there were any scars - no scars meant a doppelganger!

Cameron was refused permission by British military police to examine the man's chest - see Gordon Thomas's Journey into Madness, 1988. Significantly, Cameron was the brain-control specialist for Allan Dulles at CII in the 1950s.

I did not say mind control experiments in the Second World War were successful, only that they were under way with mescaline, LSD, and other combinations of treatments.

Dr Peter Waddell,

50 Loch Torridon,

St Leonards, East Kilbride.

August 29.