NATION : New Grand Jury on Iran-Contra
A newly impaneled federal grand jury convened today to continue the 3 1/2-year-old criminal investigation of the Iran-Contra scandal.
The grand jury will try to determine the precise roles of President Ronald Reagan and then-Vice President George Bush in the affair, sources familiar with the investigation said.
Associate independent counsel Craig Gillen is spearheading the newest phase of the Iran-Contra probe. Gillen and two other lawyers from the office of independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh were in the U.S. Courthouse conducting the first day’s work of the grand jury. No witnesses were called before the panel immediately.
While the grand jury’s work could lead to further indictments in the affair, one of its central purposes is to gather information for a final report on the scandal, the sources said.
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