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Lin Biao
At a 1967 Red Guard rally, Lin Biao (left) and Zhou Enlai publicly display copies of The Little Red Book.
According to the Chinese government, Lin Biao died on September 13, 1971, in an airplane crash in Mongolia.1
The government asserted that he was killed while attempting to flee to the Soviet Union following an unsuccessful plot to assassinate Mao Zedong. While this remains the official account, the actual circumstances surrounding his death have been a subject of historical mystery and speculation, particularly following later reports from Mongolian officials that cast doubt on the details of the crash.21