 Two other men who were already dead in 1976, Kang Sheng and Xie Fuzhi, were named as having been part of the "Gang".Chen Boda and Mao Yuanxin, the latter being Mao's nephew, were also considered some of the Gang's closer associates.Most Western accounts consider that the actual leadership of the Cultural Revolution consisted of a wider group, referring predominantly to the members of the Central Cultural Revolution Group.