sponsor, the Central Intelligence Agency. Greene observed in his memoir, Ways of Escape, it was no coincidence that “the Life photographer at the moment of the explosion was so well placed that he was able to take an astonishing and horrifying photograph which showed the body of a trishaw driver still upright after his legs had been blown off.”[186] The CIA had set the scene, alerting the Life photographer and Times reporter so they could convey the terrorist bombing as the work of “Viet Minh Communists” to a mass audience.[187]
