Ep. 362 | The Lin Biao Incident (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This is Part 1 of a 2-Part series looking at the life of Lin Biao and the actual Lin Biao Incident itself. This bit of history is documented to death. I downloaded a dozen scholarly papers, read a few books, went through my entire library, and gathered as much information as possible. But practically every source ends with "cannot be proved." The Lin Biao Incident is China's version of the Kennedy assassination. So much we know. So much we have no idea. In this Part 1 episode, I cover Lin Biao's early life and how he rose up on Mao's coattails, going back to the Jiangxi Soviet era. I'll take this episode up to the Lushan Plenum of 1970. That was the beginning of the end of Lin Biao. Be looking for Part 2 in a bit. Thanks, everyone.

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1:06.9	Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to another China history podcast episode.
1:11.4	Laslo Montgomery here. Thanks for making time for me.
1:15.3	Everyone peppering me with topic requests going back to 2010, asking about the Lin Piao incident,
1:21.2	here it is, at long last.
1:23.5	For everyone familiar with PRC history, you all know about the Lin-Biao incident.
1:28.6	In fact, I for one knew about the incident before I even knew who Lin-Piao was.
1:34.8	We know so much about the events of September 12th and 13th, 1971, but what actually happened
1:42.1	at the most secret moments, with Lin Biao himself?
1:46.5	We're still guessing 54 years later as I record this.
1:50.5	It very well may be that the most popular and widely accepted narrative about what happened that day was probably what happened.
1:59.3	I mean, maybe some details are missing and were left to speculate.
2:03.4	Hey, some secrets, you know, where the government or regime's credibility is at stake,
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