the Home Army, which was supported by the Polish Underground State, and Soviet air drops did not supply the People's Army with foodstuffs, it often had to resort to forced requisitions, which is described by modern historians as "banditry". It often targeted mansions and churches. There were also incidents of GL/AL soldiers murdering Jews or fighting among themselves. In one of its most secret and controversial actions, agents of the GL on 17 February 1944 seized an important document archive of the Underground State. Documents of importance to the communist activists were taken, and the remainder was turned over to the Gestapo agent, who had been duped into participating in the GL operation. Seven members of the Underground State were taken prisoner by the Germans in a cleanup operation and likely executed soon afterward. Leadership The commander of the Armia Ludowa was General Michał Rola-Żymierski, and the chief of staff was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party, Colonel Franciszek Jóźwiak. AL leadership took orders from the Soviet Union and represented Soviet, not Polish, interests of the state. The Polish Institute of National Remembrance, in its official description of the GL/AL, goes so far as to declare the organisation as part of the Soviet partisans, rather than the Polish resistance in World War II. See also Soviet partisans in Poland Notes References Further reading External links Armia Ludowa ZKRPiBWP Polish veterans' organization http://michalw.narod.ru/index-ZiemiLubelskiej.html http://michalw.narod.ru/index-SynowieMazowsza.html http://michalw.narod.ru/index-ZiemiKieleckiej.html World War II resistance movements Military units and formations of Poland in World War II Polish underground organisations during World War II Poland–Soviet Union relations Military units and formations established in 1944 Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 Polish resistance during World War II Soviet partisans