Classified documents obtained by Stephen Weissman, the former staff director of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Africa, confirm the role that a CIA covert action program played in bringing down Congo's only democratically elected government. The documents confirm widespread suspicion that the Eisenhower administration was involved in the overthrow and execution of nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba in 1960-61. Dr. Weissman argues that the four-decade old events have implications for the war-ravaged Congo of today.