No, he didn't. Still, he agreed to cooperate with Roth in some way after being told his brother was being 'tough on negotiations'. That alone indicates full knowledge that he was working against Michael. Traitor.

Michael was disconnected as well...although due to circumstances around him he eventually became connected.

In terms of the films, I think the Family and then Michael...did with Fredo what they could. He had to have some kind've inclusion in 'the Business'...otherwise he would not have been sitting in on the meeting with Solozo. I suppose it would've been after Vito's shooting that they came to figure him as a lost cause in terms of anything important. Off to Vegas...

As for Turnbull's very impressive post...Michael of course DID have the 'choice' to turn his back on his father & the Business once returning from Sicily, he was after all a free man. But by then too many things had happened. Sonny's death and Appolonia's ... he was way to far in and his father needed him. The Family needed him. By then, he was truly 'with them'. So again, he had the choice just as we all have the 'choice' to go to work on a warm, sunny morning or head for the beach. But we do what we have to do...and Michael did what he had to do. He didn't really have a choice.

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