Originally posted by dontomasso:
Since Roth was also in Cuba at the time, he would have had to a) know Pentangeli was singing to the NY Cops, buy off Questadt, and help coordinate a witness protection deal for Frankie AND his family. This would mean silencing them or having them tell the Corleones that they didnt need any help, didnt want them to come to the funeral etc... this would have also raised eyebrows.
One of the unknowns is how much time elapsed between Frankie's meeting with the Rosatos and the Cuba sequence. If they occurred simultaneously or almost simultaneously, there's a good chance that Roth didn't know that Frankie had survived. But let's keep in mind that Roth was convinced that Michael would never leave Cuba alive. So, even if Roth knew that Frankie had survived, his only need would be to keep Michael from knowing that, not to make other, more extensive (and risky) arrangements that might have tipped his hand.
Which brings me to a point I want to make with moustachepete and others who believe that Roth engineered Frankie's survival in order to put Michael in the Senate perjury trap:
Roth lured Michael to Cuba for one purpose: to get the $2 million, and then have him assassinated. In Roth's plan, Michael would never leave Cuba alive. Why, then, would he engineer an impossibly difficult, impossibly risky, split-second entry by a cop to save Frankie in order to set him up as a witness against Michael Corleone--who Roth planned to kill in Cuba months before the Senate hearings were due to convene?
