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I understand that the LAH will reduce the nitrile into a primary amine. The addition of acid will likely destroy the acetal mask and leave us with ethylene glycol and a molecule with both a ketone and an amine functional group. 

However, what does the sodium cyanoborohydride do here with the acid and heat? I'm again thinking this is a red herring; $\ce{NaBH3CN}$ only reduces iminium ions as far as we are concerned... and we have an amine. Amines don't exist in equilibrium with imines.