Comrade Lin Biao [2]: Please take a look at this and decide whether to hand it over to
Chengwu and others for investigation and handling.
Mao Zedong
March 2

[I] On February 22, 1968, Chen Min, the wife of Ouyang Yi, former deputy political
commissar of the Chinese People's Liberation Army's artillery, wrote a letter to Mao Zedong,
reporting on the struggle against Ouyang Yi within the artillery. The letter stated that the
recent criticism and struggle against Ouyang Yi had intensified, with severe physical and
physical punishments. He had become a completely unrecognizable person. She pleaded
with the Chairman and the central leadership to urgently save his life and grant him
freedom. The letter also stated that Ouyang Yi was truly a good comrade and by no means a
bad person, and urged the central government to conduct a thorough investigation into his
case.
[2] Lin Biao, then Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party
of China, issued a directive on March 2, 1968, to Yang Chengwu, Deputy Head of the Cultural
Revolution Group and Acting Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army:
"Please follow the Chairman's instructions and conduct a thorough investigation and
handling of the case. I look forward to hearing from you when there are any results."








2 Ouyang Yi joined revolutionary work in 1925, and the CCP in 1928. He was a Long March veteran. In time he
became the deputy political commissar of the artillery of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. During the
Cultural Revolution, he was detained for five years. On 1975, he was released and resumed work.  He died on
June 12, 2005 at the age of 96.