Getting back to my question, why couldnt feddie have been whacked and the money taken and place the blame on guerrilla activity? $2,000,000 is about $18,000,000 today. That would have bought alot back then.
It was very dangerous to bring $2 million to Cuba under any circumstances. Then, as now, it was illegal for any US citizen to bring more than $10,000 cash out of the country. Any US Customs agent looking into Fredo's bag would have confiscated the money and arrested Fredo. Worse on the Cuban side: Their Customs agents would have divvied up the money and made Fredo disappear. Anyone spotting the cash, or knowing Fredo was carrying it, would be more than tempted to whack him and grab it. And, let's face it, Fredo wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer anyway.
This raises another question: why did Michael have to bring the money to Cuba? He was using the
promise of the money to string Roth along until he could find out who was the traitor in his family. But, he didn't have to bring the
actual cash into the country to keep up the ruse--especially since he knew where,how--and especially--
when Roth was going to have him killed.
