He is dead but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Berman
Jakub Berman (December 26, 1901, in Warsaw, then Russian Empire – April 10, 1984), was a Polish communist politician. As a member of the Polish United Workers' Party's Politburo he was in charge of State Security Services (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa) and considered Joseph Stalin's right hand in the People's Republic of Poland between 1944 and 1953.
Between 1944–1956 Berman was a member of Politbiuro of Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) responsible for Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (State Security Services), propaganda, and ideology. In this capacity he was directly responsible for Stalinist-type terror and repressions against real and imagined political opponents of the communist regime in Poland. Urząd Bezpieczeństwa prosecution of ex-Home Army members, Roman Catholic Church clergy, and purges in the military, resulted in at least 6,000 death sentences, imprisonment and prosecuction of estimated 500,000 Polish patriots. He organised this camps and was right hand of Stalin in post war Poland.
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