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'''Bolesław Konstantin Gebert''', also '''Boleslaw Konstantine Gevert''', known as '''Bill Gebert''' (1895-1986) was born in the [[Bialystok]] area. His father was a peasant of German extraction, his mother a Pole. Gebert had immigrated from Poland in 1918 and found work as a miner. In 1919 he took part in the creation of the Kosciuszko League[http://raven.cc.ku.edu/~eceurope/communistnationssince1917/ch5.html]. Gebert was a founding member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA), and the editor of a Polish newspaper in which he wrote of the paradise the Russian people were living in. By the late 1930s Gebert rose to a leadership role as district organizer in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Gebert was a National Officer of the Polonia Society of [[International Workers Order]]. Louis Budenz wrote of a conflict between Gebert and Morris Childs, district organizer for Illinois, over Gebert's intrusion into Chicago and, in particular, over a "Czech comrade who was doing vital underground work for Gebert." After the formation of the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO), Gebert was able to bring many ethnic Poles into the organization.
Gebert appears in nine intercepted [[KGB]] messages between May and October 1944. Gebert is the contact of fellow Soviet agent, [[Oskar Lange]], a Polish-American economist who was a personal emissary from [[President Roosevelt]] to [[Josef Stalin]] on the "Polish question". These decryptions refer to the postwar Polish government, to the Polish borders, and to the "[[Western betrayal|betrayal]]" of Poland to Soviet Communism.
Another Venona message reports Gebert's demand for a $500 balance the KGB still owed him on a one thousand dollar contract to publish a Polish-language book. After [[World War II]] Gebert returned to the now Communist-dominated Poland, and was rewarded with a leading position in the state-controlled labor unions. He returned to the United States in 1950 as [[United Nations]] representative of the [[World Federation of Trade Unions]]. From 1960 to 1967 Gebert served as the Polish Ambassador to Turkey. He is the father of [[Konstanty Gebert]].
===Venona===
Boleslaw Gebert cover name as assigned by Soviet intelligence and decyphered in Venona project transcripts was ATAMAN. Gebert was a contact of the mysterious unidentified KHAN (also SELIM KHAN). Gebert is referenced in the following Venona decrypts:
700 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 May 1944; 759–760 KGB New York to Moscow, 27 May 1944; 761 KGB New York to Moscow, 27 May 1944; 763 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 May 1944; 823 KGB New York to Moscow, 7 June 1944; 928 KGB New York to Moscow, 1 July 1944; 956, 957 KGB New York to Moscow, 6 July 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_Aug_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif 1229 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 August 1944]; 1410 KGB New York to Moscow, 6 October 1944.
===Books by Boleslaw Gebert===
*Boleslaw Gebert, ''New Poland'', New York: Polonia Society of the International Workers Order, (1945). Intro. by Arthur Upham Pope.
*Boleslaw Gebert, ''Z Tykocina Za Ocean'' (''From Tykocin Beyond the Ocean''). Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1982. Autobiography by Boleslaw Gebert, Polish CPUSA leader in the 1930s and 1940s who returned to Poland after W.W.II.
===Reference===
*[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona file]
*Louis Budenz, ''Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy In America''. (New York: Harper, 1950), pgs. 55–58, 60–61, 252.
*Harvey Klehr, ''The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade'' (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 231–231.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 234, 235, 239.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gebert, Boleslaw}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]
Gebert appears in nine intercepted [[KGB]] messages between May and October 1944. Gebert is the contact of fellow Soviet agent, [[Oskar Lange]], a Polish-American economist who was a personal emissary from [[President Roosevelt]] to [[Josef Stalin]] on the "Polish question". These decryptions refer to the postwar Polish government, to the Polish borders, and to the "[[Western betrayal|betrayal]]" of Poland to Soviet Communism.
Another Venona message reports Gebert's demand for a $500 balance the KGB still owed him on a one thousand dollar contract to publish a Polish-language book. After [[World War II]] Gebert returned to the now Communist-dominated Poland, and was rewarded with a leading position in the state-controlled labor unions. He returned to the United States in 1950 as [[United Nations]] representative of the [[World Federation of Trade Unions]]. From 1960 to 1967 Gebert served as the Polish Ambassador to Turkey. He is the father of [[Konstanty Gebert]].
===Venona===
Boleslaw Gebert cover name as assigned by Soviet intelligence and decyphered in Venona project transcripts was ATAMAN. Gebert was a contact of the mysterious unidentified KHAN (also SELIM KHAN). Gebert is referenced in the following Venona decrypts:
700 KGB New York to Moscow, 17 May 1944; 759–760 KGB New York to Moscow, 27 May 1944; 761 KGB New York to Moscow, 27 May 1944; 763 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 May 1944; 823 KGB New York to Moscow, 7 June 1944; 928 KGB New York to Moscow, 1 July 1944; 956, 957 KGB New York to Moscow, 6 July 1944; [http://www.nsa.gov/venona/releases/29_Aug_1944_R3_m1_p1.gif 1229 KGB New York to Moscow, 29 August 1944]; 1410 KGB New York to Moscow, 6 October 1944.
===Books by Boleslaw Gebert===
*Boleslaw Gebert, ''New Poland'', New York: Polonia Society of the International Workers Order, (1945). Intro. by Arthur Upham Pope.
*Boleslaw Gebert, ''Z Tykocina Za Ocean'' (''From Tykocin Beyond the Ocean''). Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1982. Autobiography by Boleslaw Gebert, Polish CPUSA leader in the 1930s and 1940s who returned to Poland after W.W.II.
===Reference===
*[http://foia.fbi.gov/venona/venona.pdf FBI Venona file]
*Louis Budenz, ''Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy In America''. (New York: Harper, 1950), pgs. 55–58, 60–61, 252.
*Harvey Klehr, ''The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade'' (New York: Basic Books, 1984), 231–231.
*John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, ''Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), pgs. 234, 235, 239.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gebert, Boleslaw}}
[[Category:KGB Agents and Sources]]