He was an accomplished artist who exhibited alongside Picasso before volunteering to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
[3] Hinton also employed Gerassi's wife, Stepha, to teach "anything she wanted" and she would go on to teach a number of subjects during their years at the school, including French, Spanish, Russian, German, ancient history, Latin, and European history.
[2] In 1955 Time magazine reported that to support his family while establishing his art career, he tried "some 40 different jobs".
[2] One of his friends eventually reported the harassment to Abe Fortas, then an aide to Lyndon Johnson.
Fortas obtained the CIA file and passed it onto the United States Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, who immediately gave Gerassi and his family American citizenship and apologized "in the name of America".