Project 571
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Project 571 was the code name given to an alleged plot to execute a coup d'état against Chairman Mao Zedong in 1971 by the supporters of Lin Biao, then Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. In
A copy of the Draft of Project 571
Site of Project 571 in Suzhou
Lin Biao
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Lin Biao was a Chinese military commander and politician. Pivotal to the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, he commanded the Liaoshen and Pingjin campaigns at the head of the Manchurian Field
Project 571
…pinyin: Wǔqīyī gōngchéng) was the code name given to an alleged plot to execute a coup d'état against Chairman Mao Zedong in 1971 by the supporters of Lin Biao, then Vice Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. In Chinese, the numbers "5-7-1" (五七一; wǔqīyī) sound very similar to the term 'armed uprising' (武起义…
Official portrait, 1955
Lin Biao in Kuomintang uniform, 1944
Lin Biao with wife Ye Qun and their children
Lin with Zhou Enlai in National Revolutionary Army uniforms (1943)