 CIA Chief Allan Dulles had allocated $100,000 to accomplish the act, but the plan was not carried out.In April 2013, in a letter to the "London Review of Books," British parliamentarian David Lea reported having discussed Lumumba's death with MI6 officer Daphne Park shortly before she died in March 2010.Park had been posted to Leopoldville at the time of Lumumba's death, and was later a semi-official spokesperson for MI6 in the House of Lords.