Graham Greene,who was then wintering in Saigon, wondered how LIFE happened to have a photographer on the scene, as he explained in his 1980 memoir, Ways of Escape: "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." "This photograph was reproduced in an American propaganda magazine published in Manila over the caption 'The work of Ho Chi Minh,"'Greene continued, despite the fact that General Trinh Minh The, a warlord masquerading as Vietnam's savior from colonialism and communism, "had promptly claimed the bomb as his own." "Who," Greene pondered, "had supplied the material" to this "bandit"?