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June 1967	Directive [from Mao Zedong] Regarding Comrade Yao Wenyuan’s Visit to Albania Mao reminds Comrade Yao Wenyuan to remain humble on his upcoming trip to Albania for the sake of China's Red Guards.
June 1967	[Mao Zedong's] Revisions for a Speech That Chinese Red Guard Delegates [Will Deliver] in Albania Mao deletes and revises phrases in a speech that Chinese Red Guards would subsequently deliver on a trip to Albania.
January 28, 1967	Directive [from Mao Zedong] Regarding Foreign Friends' Participation in the Cultural Revolution Mao allows revolutionary foreigners to participate in the Cultural Revolution.
May 1, 1967	[Mao Zedong's] Conversation with Distinguished Guests from Albania during the "May First" [Labour or International Workers' Day] Holiday In a meeting with visitors from Albania, Mao explains that China needs to "criticize, struggle, and achieve the 'Three Combinations' [for reorganizing the government] as soon as possible.
May 1, 1967	Remarks from [Mao Zedong's] Audience with an Albanian Military Delegation In a meeting with Albanian military officials, Mao explains his reasons for starting the Cultural Revolution. He emphasizes that the purpose is to solve current problems in the world and dig out the roots of revisionism [within the Chinese Communist Party].
February 3, 1967	[Mao Zedong's] Conversation with [Hysni] Kapo and [Beqir] Balluku Mao explains that he started the Cultural Revolution to purge revisionist and bourgeois elements from the Chinese Communist Party in an open and comprehensive way.
January 17, 1967	[Mao Zedong] and Foreign Guests Discuss How to Read Big-Character Posters Mao explains that not all big-character posters are revolutionary ones. Readers should understand that the posters will present different sides of various issues.
December 14, 1976	Helmut Peters, 'Note about a Talk in the Department for International Relations of the Central Committee of the CPSU on 13 December 1976' GDR and Soviet officials discuss possible trajectories for China following the death of Mao..
June 29, 1967	Ministry for State Security, 'Single Information about Rioting by Employees of the Embassy of the PR China in the GDR in the Context of a Grave Traffic Accident by a Vehicle of the Embassy on 27 June 1967' A report about Chinese protests against the GDR over the deaths of several embassy staff members in East Germany.
November 9, 1973	Embassy of the GDR in the PR China, 'On the Escalation of Anti-Sovietism by the Leadership of the PR China since mid-1973' An analysis of the rise of Anti-Soviet propaganda by the Chinese Government, including suspected reasons for the rhetoric and the current state of Sino-Soviet relations.