Frederic Pryor | |
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| Born | Frederic LeRoy Pryor April 23, 1933 Owosso, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | September 2, 2019 (aged 86) |
| Occupation | College professor |
| Known for | involvement in Cold War "spy swap" |
| Spouse | Zora Prochazka |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Communist Foreign Trade System (1962) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Institutions | Swarthmore College |
Frederic LeRoy Pryor (April 23, 1933 – September 2, 2019)[1][2] was an American economist. While studying in Berlin during the partition of the city in 1961, he was imprisoned in East Germany for six months, then released in a Cold War "spy swap" that also involved downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. He spent the bulk of his career as a member of the Swarthmore College faculty, as a professor of economics.