In life as in fiction, Greene's taunts left Americans in a quiet
fury  US compiled secret reports on novelist for years, FBI
files show Graham Greene's classic tale The Quiet American,
released this week in cinemas starring Michael Caine in a
potentially Oscar-winning role, is still stirring up controversy
over its apparent anti-Americanism.  The 1955 novel tells how a
British journalist duels with an American official, Alden Pyle,
for the affections of a woman in Vietnam. But the story of
deception and espionage also reveals how Pyle is secretly
organising terrorist acts and plotting to establish a puppet
government friendly to the Americans.  Greene's fiction has
often riled Americans, but it appears that in real life too, his
views caused the US government some concern.  Documents obtained
by the Guardian under the US Freedom of Information Act disclose
how officials in Washington went to extraordinary lengths to
compile secret reports on the distinguished novelist over 40
years as he travelled the world i