Wang [2], please print and distribute this letter together with the original letter to all
comrades in the Politburo. I intend to release him for medical treatment. The Lin Feng case
was not clarified in the past. Some evidence was insufficient, and the investigators seemed
to have forced him to confess.
Mao Zedong
August 11, 1972

[1] This comment was written on the "Summary of Letters" No. 545, compiled and published
by the Letters and Visits Office of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee on August
10, 1972. The summary of the letter stated that Lin Meimei and other children of Lin Feng,
the former president of the CPC Central Committee's Senior Party School, wrote to Chairman
Mao on August 5, saying that they had visited Lin Feng in Qincheng on August 4. Lin Feng
was suffering from heart disease and diabetes, and his expression was dull and his body was
thin. They requested that he be allowed to come out for treatment and recuperation. On
July 7, 1973, Lin Feng wrote to Mao Zedong: "Under the kind care of you and the Central
Committee, I have been treated in Fuwai Hospital for more than ten months." In the letter,
he requested that he resume his party organization life as soon as possible and also exposed
several problems of Lin Biao in the Northeast. On July 10, Mao Zedong read the letter and
instructed: "Ji and Wang will deal with it at their discretion."
[2] Wang refers to Wang Dongxing, who was then an alternate member of the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the General Office of the CPC Central
Committee.