
The Historical Context 21
point, anyone who had been looking would have seen only a
payment to CAMFAB and a receivable on the Braniff books.
There was no record of the return of the money to Braniff’s
chairman, who gave the $40,000 to Maurice Stans. (Stans’s
travels to raise cash in the period just before the April 7 dead-
line were known as “Stans’s shakedown cruise.”)
Braniff now took some additional steps to layer and inte-
grate the contribution. First, the company supplied a number of
special blank airline tickets to Fabrega in Panama City. These
tickets were then sold only by the Braniff supervisor at the
Panama City ofce and onl