Bolesław Konstanty "Bill" Gebert (22 July 1895 – 13 February 1986) was a top Communist Party official, remembered as one of the organization's top Polish-language speaking leaders. He was a Soviet agent during the years of World War II and was an official of the Polish Communist government after the war. Background Bolesław Konstanty Gebert was born July 22, 1895, in Tatary, near Tykocin, in the Białystok region, near the current border of Poland and Belarus. His family were farmers who lost their noble status and landed estates after Gebert's grandfather, Adolf Gebert, took part in the January Uprising in 1863–1864. Gebert's father, Konstanty Gebert (1856–1941), was a soldier in the Polish Legions in World War I and later fought in the Polish–Soviet War, taking part in the defence of Warsaw. A farmer by trade, he was an active member of the peasant Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie", for which he was imprisoned in 1923. He continued his military service during the Invasion of Poland in 1939 and was a prisoner of war in the Kozielsk Soviet camp. After his release, Konstanty Gebert was a member of the Home Army resistance movement during World War II, along with three of his four brothers, Mieczysław, Henryk, and Aleksander. The latter brother and Bill Gebert's uncle, Aleksander Gebert, was later persecuted for his resistance service by the Communists in post-War Poland. Career Gebert immigrated from Poland to the United States prior to the Russian Revolution and found work as a miner. Political career By 1915, Gebert was an active member of the Socialist Party of America working in the SPA's Polish Federation. He took part in the creation of the Kosciuszko League. In 1919, he was active in the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party and became a founding member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUsA), for which he edited a Polish socialist newspaper. In the Palmer Raids at year-end 1919, he was arrested but not deported. In 1920, Gebert was named to the governing Central Executive Committee of the CPA as an ostensible representative of the Polish Communist Federation in the wake of the deportation of Polish leader Daniel Elbaum. By that time, he was in Detroit, Michigan and editor of the three primary Polish-language publications: Głos Robotniczy (Workers' Voice), Trybuna Robotnicza (The Workers' Tribune), and Głos Ludowy (People's Voice). In 1929, he served as Secretary of the Polish