Lin Liguo

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Lin Liguo (Simplified Chinese:林立果, 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 joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1967 and was promoted to the deputy director of the Office of the Air Force Command in 1969. In 1970, under his father Lin Biao's direction, Lin Liguo made a plan known as Project 571 to assassinate Mao Zedong. The Lin family attempted to flee to the Soviet Union after the coup failed, and died a plane crash over Mongolia on September 13, 1971.