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April 1st, 2013 
Peter Nolan
He made the revelation in response to a review of a book by Calder Walton in
to British intelligence in the London Review of Books.
Lord Lea wrote: “Referring to the controversy surrounding the death of
Patrice Lumumba in1960, Bernard Porter quotes Calder Walton’s conclusion:
‘The question remains whether British plots to assassinate Lumumba ever
amounted to anything. At present, we do not know’ .
“Actually, in this particular case, I can report that we do. It so
happens that I was having a cup of tea with Daphne Park – we were colleagues
from opposite sides of the Lords – a few months before she died in March
2010.
“She had been consul and first secretary in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa,
from 1959 to 1961, which in practice (this was subsequently acknowledged) meant
head of MI6 there.
“I mentioned the uproar surrounding Lumumba’s abduction and murder, and
recalled the theory that MI6 might have had something to do with it. ‘We
did,’ she replied, ‘I organised it.'”
Lord Lea went on to claim Baroness Park had indicated that the reason was
because of concerns that Lumumba may be a communist siding with Soviet
Russia.
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