Comrades Lin Biao and Enlai [1]:
This letter [2] is well worth reading. It was written by comrades from the two Shandong
Military Regions.
Mao Zedong
May 11
The same situation exists throughout the army, among many people, though certainly not
the majority.

[1] Lin Biao, then Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party
of China. Enlai, also known as Zhou Enlai.
[2] This refers to the document entitled "Some Issues in the Support for the Left Work of the
Jinan and Shandong Military Regions" published in the 178th issue of the "Cultural
Revolution Letters and Visits Bulletin" compiled by the Letters and Visits Office of the
General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on May 9, 1967.
The document states that two cadres from the Political Department of the Jinan Military
Region and the Shandong Provincial Military Region Command wrote letters reflecting that
the Jinan Military Region and the Shandong Provincial Military Region "had many
shortcomings and mistakes" in their support for the left: (1) They believed that the Jinan
Military Region "adopted a two-faced approach" in "fighting against the countercurrent of
capitalist counter-revolutionary restoration." On the one hand, they acknowledged that the
revolutionary organizations surrounding the Provincial Drafting Committee were
revolutionaries, while on the other hand, they acknowledged that some conservative
organizations were also revolutionaries, supporting them openly or secretly and attacking
the revolutionaries. (2) They said that some cadres in the Jinan Military Region had "wrongly
commented" on Wang Xiaoyu, Director of the Shandong Provincial Revolutionary
Committee. (3) They claim that the Jinan Military Region is actively preparing to "sue" and
go to Beijing to file a complaint. (4) They believe that the Jinan Military Region and the
Shandong Provincial Military Region have yet to expose the problems of Tan Qilong (then
First Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China). (5)
They believe that the Jinan Military Region and the Shandong Provincial Military Region have
gone from having little affection for the rebels in the past to open opposition.