Lin Biao, Vice Chair of the Chinese Communist Party, died in a plane crash five months before President Nixon's 1972 visit to China.
Sources
- A Fixation on Moles: James J. Angleton, Anatoliy Golitsyn, and the "Monster Plot" (cia.gov)
- https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/lin-biao-incident (historytoday.com)
- https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/joint-statement-announcing-the-date-the-presidents-visit-the-peoples-republic-china (presidency.ucsb.edu)
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