Frederic Pryor

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Frederic Pryor was an American economics student who was arrested in East Germany in 1961 and later became known for being one of the prisoners exchanged during the Cold War spy swap depicted in the film "Bridge of Spies."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
economist
human
arrestedBy Ministry of the Interior of the GDR
surface form: East German authorities
causeOfDeath Parkinson's disease
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfArrest 1961-08
dateOfBirth 1933-04-23
dateOfDeath 2019-09-02
doctoralAdvisor Wassily Leontief
educatedAt University of Michigan
Yale University
employer Swarthmore College
ethnicGroup European American
fieldOfWork comparative economics
economic systems
economics
genreOfWork academic research in economics
hasAcademicDegree PhD in economics
hasCause arrest related to Berlin Wall crisis
hasRepresentationIn Bridge of Spies
surface form: film "Bridge of Spies"
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf faculty of Swarthmore College
notableFor being arrested in East Germany in 1961
being mistakenly suspected as a spy by East German authorities
being part of a Cold War prisoner exchange
inspiration for events depicted in the film "Bridge of Spies"
long teaching career at Swarthmore College
notableWork studies on economic systems and property rights
occupation economist
university professor
participantIn Cold War
Glienicke Bridge prisoner exchange
partOf Cold War prisoner exchange of 1962
placeOfBirth Owosso, Michigan
surface form: Owosso, Michigan, United States of America
placeOfDeath Pennsylvania
surface form: Pennsylvania, United States of America
placeOfDetention East Berlin
portrayedIn Bridge of Spies
surface form: film "Bridge of Spies"
positionHeld professor of economics at Swarthmore College
reasonForDetention suspicion of espionage by East German authorities
residence Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
surface form: Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
sexOrGender male

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Bridge of Spies portrays Frederic Pryor
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