Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China Book U

Page 21

Size: 13 x 18.4 cm

Chou En-lai continues his report:

"He (Lin Piao) went further to start a counter-revolutionary coup d'etat, which was aborted, at the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth Central Committee in August 1970, then in March 1971 he drew up the plan for an armed counter-revolutionary coup d'etat entitled Outline of Project "571", and on September 8, he launched the coup in a wild attempt to assassinate ou great leader Chairman Mao and set up a rival central committee. "