Comments on Ye Fei’s Letter
(June 25, 1973)
Ji and Wang [2] may decide as they see fit. It appears that this person could be released and assigned to a post.
Notes
73,6,25
Printed from Mao Zedong’s handwritten draft.
[1] Ye Fei was formerly Secretary of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, First Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and Commander and First Political Commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region of the People’s Liberation Army. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution following erroneous criticism. On June 18, 1973, he wrote to Mao Zedong requesting the Central Committee’s approval to lift the surveillance imposed on him and to allow him to read internal party documents. In August 1973, at the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he was elected an alternate member of the CPC Central Committee. In 1975, he served as Minister of Transport and Secretary of the Party Group of the Ministry.
[2] Ji refers to Ji Dengkui, who at the time was an alternate member of the CPC Central Politburo and a member of the Central Organization and Propaganda Group. Wang refers to Wang Dongxing, who at the time was an alternate member of the CPC Central Politburo and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.