Lin Liguo

According to Wu Faxian testimony in the 1980 trial:

From November 1980 to January 1981, the trial of the members belonging to the "counter-revolutionary" group of Lin Biao and Gang of Four was held in Beijing. In particular, five high-ranking military personnel, including Wu Faxian, appeared before the court, where they testified that Lin Liguo was actively involved in Project 571. It is also still unclear whether Lin Biao himself planned a coup, or whether Lin Liguo and Ye Qun had such plans and did not inform Lin Biao about them.

The Lin family, including Lin Biao, Ye Qun, and Lin Liguo, attempted to flee after the coup failed. On September 13, 1971, they fled in a PLAAF Hawker Siddeley Trident, from Qinhuangdao Shanhaiguan Airport.

Mao Zedong's government claims, that in 1970, under his father Lin Biao's direction, Lin Liguo made a plan known as Project 571 to assassinate Mao Zedong in Shanghai, but Mao was alerted to it and left Shanghai one day ahead of schedule and changed return route back to Beijing. In February 1971, Lin Liguo took Yu Xinye, the deputy director of the Political Department of the PLAAF to Hangzhou; then he called another deputy director Zhou Yuchi from Beijing to Shanghai, and met them in Shanghai from March 20th to 24th.

Following the start of Cultural Revolution, he dropped out of the university and joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1967. Lin was promoted to the deputy director of the Office of the Air Force Command in 1969, by the commander of PLAAF Wu Faxian. This was an important position and all crucial documents must pass through the hands of Lin.

Lin Liguo (Chinese: 林立果, December 23, 1945 – September 13, 1971) was the son of the Chinese Communist military leader Lin Biao and the person in charge of Project 571 Outline, a plotted coup against Mao Zedong.

Lin was born in 1945. He graduated from the elite Beijing No. 4 High School and later entered the Faculty of Physics at Peking University. He later became member of the Chinese Communist Party.