Originally Posted By: dontomasso
... during the chaos of the Castro takeover it seems it would have been relatively easy to knock him off and come back with a plausable story that "poor Fredo" died when the rebels were rioting...


And how, in the middle of all this chaos, would it be 'relatively easy' for Michael to knock off Fredo?

Poison his drink?

Strangle him during that New Year's embrace?

Summon his bodyguard to take care of it after killing Roth? (Not knowing of course, that the bodyguard himself was already dead.)

Shoot him dead in the streets?

Have his driver run Fredo down?

Not only did Michael still need information from his lousy traitor of a brother, but it didn't appear to be his way to simply pop anybody on the spur of the moment without a specific plan in place.

Apple


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