Comrades Lin Biao and Enlai:
This document is worth reading. A small number of counter-revolutionaries, rightists, and
degenerates have infiltrated the Party, government, military, people, academia, factories,
rural areas, and commerce. Most of these people have come out on their own during this
movement, which is a great thing. The revolutionary masses should carefully investigate and
thoroughly criticize them, and then deal with them according to their severity. Please pay
attention to this issue. Tan Zhenlin's opinion is correct. Please distribute this document to
comrades who have a large number of copies to alert them.
Mao Zedong
January 30

[1] Tan Zhenlin was then a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee,
Vice Premier of the State Council, and Director of the Office of Agriculture and Forestry.
[2] Lin Biao was re-elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee at the 11th Plenary Session of the 8th CPC Central Committee
and was soon named Vice Chairman of the CPC Central Committee. Enlai is Zhou Enlai.
[3] This refers to the report Tan Zhenlin submitted to Mao Zedong and the Central Cultural