By Ryan Dougherty-October 21st, 2015
For more than half a century, Frederic Pryor has been doing his best to forget about his experiences in East Germany.
“Half a year of prison isn’t fun,” says the professor emeritus of economics and senior research scholar, whom the Stasi, the East German secret police, arrested in 1961 on suspicion of spying. He had written a doctoral dissertation on the foreign trade system of the Soviet bloc, which was misconstrued as intel for the U.S.