Lin Piao

Lin Piao19081971MChinese CommunistMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesman 1908–71, Chinese Communist general and statesman. He became minister of defence (1959) and second in rank to Mao Tse-tung (1966). He fell from grace and is reported to have died in an air crash while attempting to flee to the Soviet Union