Ex-Reagan Aide Gets Full Immunity
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NEW YORK — President Reagan’s one-time personal assistant has received full immunity in return for his cooperation with the independent counsel investigating the Iran- contra affair, it was reported today.
David C. Fischer, the President’s top personal aide from 1981-85, received the immunity “simply as a legal precaution,” his attorney, Charles R. Work, told the New York Times.
Fischer has not been charged and has denied wide knowledge of the fund-raising efforts on behalf of Nicaragua’s rebels. He has provided some information to a grand jury investigating the case, the newspaper said.
It was not clear exactly what information independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh expects to get from Fischer, but one federal official said it might be Fischer’s explanations of how the Reagan White House functions, the newspaper reported.
A spokesman for Walsh, Dennis Feldman, said he had no comment on the report. There was no answer Sunday night at Work’s law office in Washington.
After leaving the White House, Fischer worked as a $20,000-a-month consultant to groups later linked to illegal fund raising for the contras.
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