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According to the Godfather Wiki, the attempt on Pentangeli's life was intended to fail.
Shortly before the Cuban fiasco, the Senate began hearings on the impact of organized crime. The subcommittee's lawyer, Questadt, was on Roth's payroll, and alerted Roth. Seeing a chance to eliminate Michael from the scene, Roth had the Rosatos try to kill Pentangeli ...
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There's another less obvious reason that was left out of the final cut of the film.
From Wikipedia:
The finished film leaves unclear exactly what about his brother's
presence motivated Frank to change his story. The final film only
states that Vincenzo is himself a Mafia chieftain in Sicily. An
early draft of the film explains that Vincenzo, ...
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There are some theories that Hyman Roth told the would-be assassins to say that as part of a larger plan to turn Pentangeli against the Corleones, hence why Tom Hagen says that "Roth played this one beautifully", but this raises more questions about how much of what went down (the random cop walking by, and the shootout that follows) could have been planned ...
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