Led the Tower Commission, officially known as the President’s Special Review Board, was part of a whitewash for the Iran-Contra affair – which Tower had
personal connections to, along with a pivotal role in the 1980 “October Surprise”.
In fact, in exchange for whitewashing the affair, Tower was allegedly to be
rewarded with the nomination to become Secretary of Defense.
An FBI memo from 1988 reveals that they were investigating allegations that
Tower had been approached by a representative of the Khomeini regime in 1980
about supplying Iran with replacement parts for planes, planes which would be
used in Iran’s war with Iraq.
The meeting being referred to was the infamous L’Enfant Plaza meeting, which is
one of the well-documented aspects of the October Surprise lead-up. The short
version is that at least one representative from Iran approached Senator Tower
about replacement parts for American F-14s in Iran, and the possibility of releasing
the hostages. Senator Tower had his then aide, Robert “Bud” McFarlane handle the
issue and meet with the individual to determine his credibility. McFarlane brought
several people with him to the meeting at L’Enfant Plaza, including Richard V. Allen.
Tower would later deny any knowledge of the meeting to the FBI and omitted any
mention of his arms dealing brother-in-law, Samuel Cummings.
President George H. W. Bush would later nominate Tower as his nominee for
Secretary of Defense. Bush’s nomination was rejected by the Senate. After the
defeat, Tower chaired the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
According to author Gordon Thomas in his book Robert Maxwell-Israel’s Superspy,
Tower is depicted as a corrupt puppet handled by billionaire Robert Maxwell.
He is also accused of petitioning for Mossad’s version of enhanced PROMIS
software with built in a backdoor to be adopted by the US government’s Los Alamos Laboratories, thus making Israel's Mossad privy to the innermost secrets of American atomic energy programs.
Appointed Robert “Bud” McFarlane to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
According to Gyeorgos C. Hatonn in his book ‘Missing the Lifeboat?’ and Gary Wean
in his book ‘There’s a Fish in the Courthouse’, claim Tower handed vital documents
to Wean, Sheriff Bill Decker and Audie Murphy shortly after the JFK assassination
that revealed the identities of the assassins.
Tower died in the 1991 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 crash.