He and some friends then became mercenaries, offering their professional expertise to various anti-communist rebels, and made considerable money in doing so.

The Reagan doctrine embraces aid to anti-Communist rebels around the world.

Many of the guns were supplied years ago by South Africa to anti-Communist rebels in Mozambique and are now flowing back across the border.

The authorities say Mr. Russbacher's scheme included telling potential investors that the money they invested would help finance anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua.

Indeed, when he wasn't in Washington, he could often be found traipsing around Angola and Mozambique with (nominally) anti-Communist rebels.

But diverting money to anti-Communist rebels was a "constitutional crisis."

In the 1984 presidential campaign, Mondale said Reagan's support for anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua had "embarrassed us."

The island has undergone many revolutions, and the villainous King Snake was blinded while working as a mercenary in the employ of anti-Communist rebels.

"So the business in Singapore was more drug money to finance anti-Communist rebels," Bolan said.

The agency's continuing investigation of drug trafficking by the anti-Communist rebels has a richer lode of evidence to mine.