As for Fredo telling Roth about Michael's plans, my guess is he did. How else would the Cuban police have known to go to the hospital to kill the bodyguard? Just a thought, but sending the police to the hospital may have been Batista's last order as president.
If that's the case, and Roth knew in advance that the hit attempt was coming, then why were he and Johnny Ola caught so flat-footed when it came? Bussetta was able to walk right into Ola's room, completely unobstructed, and strangle Johhny Ola right there on the spot, without so much as anybody else even being there to challenge it.
As for Roth, if a tipoff to Batista's police was his only line of defense, it almost came too late, as Bussetta was within a couple of minutes of finishing off Roth right then and there.
~ Q
