Lin, Zhou, Kang and all the comrades of the Central Committee and the Military Commission:
Please discuss this report [2] once. It is suggested that the Party Committee of the Beijing
Military Region hold a meeting to discuss it. People from all divisions should attend the
meeting and more time should be given to discuss why Chen Boda was allowed to run
around and talk nonsense. He has no position in the Beijing Military Region, and the Central
Committee has not appointed him to solve the military and political problems of the Beijing
Military Region. Why did Chen Boda become the emperor of the Beijing Military Region and
North China? Comrade Lin Biao told me that it was inconvenient for him to talk to people
from the 38th Army. The Beijing Military Region did not hold a centralized meeting on the
Chen Boda issue, but only conveyed it to the provinces and armies. Therefore, it did not
work well to get through the thinking and unite the whole army better. Please decide
whether the above suggestions are feasible.
Mao Zedong
December 16


[1] Chen Boda was then a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the
CPC Central Committee. During the Cultural Revolution, he actively participated in the
conspiracy of the Lin Biao and Jiang Qing counter-revolutionary groups to seize the highest
power of the party and the state. After the Second Plenary Session of the Ninth CPC Central
Committee in 1970, he was isolated for investigation. In August 1973, the First Plenary
Session of the Tenth CPC Central Committee passed a resolution to expel Chen Boda from
the party and abolish the two-party relationship inside and outside the party. In January
1981, the Special Court of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China
confirmed that Pi Youda was the main culprit in the Mu Biao counter-revolutionary group
case and sentenced him to 18 years in prison and deprived him of political rights for 5 years.
[2] Refers to the report submitted by the 38th CPC Military Commission on December 10,
1970 to the Central Military Commission Office Group and the CPC Central Committee,
which exposed Chen Boda's anti-Party crimes.