Powers was not the world’s most cultured person. As a student in 1961, Swarthmore College professor emeritus Frederic Pryor (left) was arrested in East Germany and charged with espionage. Speaking about his gratitude for the work to release him, he said: “After I got back to the US, I visited Donovan to thank him – he told me Powers never thanked him. “I didn’t know why it said that, until I remembered I hadn’t paid my tuition fees on time,” Mr Pryor said.
The card read “special student, only room 413”, and his interrogator spent a week on determining the apparent secret behind his “special” status. His captors became fixated on a Yale library card he had on his person at the time of his arrest. I was arrested on a fluke.”ĭuring his six-month prison stint, Mr Pryor was subjected to intense interrogation for six hours per day. and Canada and more than 5,000 online courses within our mobile-friendly learning platform, or purchase eLibrary content to import into an. Access 12,000+ live seminars across the U.S. 1 week ago Pryor Learning delivers 17,000+ award-winning training optionslive and onlineto satisfy learning needs anytime, anywhere, in any format. They looked in my car and found a copy of my dissertation on the foreign trade system of the Communist bloc. Online Training Programs - Pryor Learning Solutions. “I didn’t know that she had escaped and had her house staked out.
He attributes his arrest in 1961 to being “in the wrong place at the wrong time” after he travelled to Berlin to listen to Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the Communist Party, give a speech, and to visit the sister of a friend to check if she had any messages for him.
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