placed in the mausoleum dedicated to Guevara. Following her death,
Bunke became a highly venerated figure in both Cuba and the GDR
with many youth brigades, children’s nurseries, women’s groups, and
schools bearing her name.BUSCH, HEINZ (1931– ). An officer of the Hauptverwaltung
Aufklärung (HVA) who defected to the Bundesnachrichtendienst
(BND) following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Heinz Busch was born
in Belgard (now Bialogard, Poland). Joining the Ministerium für
Staatssicherheit (MfS) in 1954, he served as a counterintelligence
officer at the Moscow embassy of the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) and studied afterward at the Frunze Military Academy. In
1975, following three years of teaching at the Juristische Hoch-
schule des MfS, he was appointed head of military evaluation within
Division VII of the HVA.
Considered an exceptionally loyal and persuasive spokesman for
the HVA, Busch was selected to meet with members of the citizens’
committees as public criticism of the Stasi dramatically escalated in
fall 1989. Yet immediately prior to his scheduled appearance before
the Central Roundtable in East Berlin on 14 January 1990, he decided
to defect to the BND instead. Although Busch’s responsibilities with
the HVA had involved the examination of original documents, the
true identity of the sources was purposely kept concealed. Neverthe-
less, his knowledge proved of immense value to the BND, notably
in the unmasking of Rainer Rupp. In several publications, Busch
wrote about the inner workings of the military espionage conducted
by the GDR.
BUTLAR, RUDOLF WALRAB BARON VON (?–1983). An early
chief of security for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Rudolf
Walrab Baron von Butlar began his intelligence career as a radio
operator with the Organisation Gehlen under the cover name of
Bernhardt. Following the transition to the BND, he headed the
Hauskapelle that helped unmask the double agent Heinz Felfe and
subsequently became responsible for overall security. Butlar’s ap-
pointment as the BND resident in Tehran in 1972 ended prematurely
because of serious illness. Returning to Pullach, he held the relatively
insignificant post of inspector for the remainder of the decade.
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