Originally posted by tom_hagen_fan:
Please excuse me if this topic has been discussed ad nauseum, but I am curious as to how Don Corleone was able to figure out with absolute certainty that Barzini was behind the fighting between the families and Sonny's death.
Did he do something in particular at the meeting since Vito had mentioned to Tom "I didn't know until this day that is was Barzini all along."?
It seems to me that since Vito had the politicians in his pocket, he held the power and not Barzini.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Barzini tips his hand when he intervenes at the meeting accusing Vito of being unwilling to share his political connections with the other familes and then goes on to say that surely this is not an act of a friend. If Tattaglia was really the one who was behind Sollozo and the drug deal then he would have been the one to make those assertions about Vito. So it is obvious by Barzini's remarks and his reaction that he ( Barzini ) was the one really behind it all.
Don Cardi
