JFK files expose family secrets

In a nutshell

Growing up, a man named John Smith knew his grandfather as a serious academic who wrote books on pre-Civil War presidents and traveled the world in his younger years.

However, he recently discovered that his grandfather had been a U.S. government asset, feeding Soviet-era intelligence to the CIA.

Indeed, the Trump administration's release of over 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy revealed the identities of many people who worked with clandestine services, including John Smith's grandfather.

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