story and one of them is a german national by the name of stross meyer who was living in the city for about four years from 1991 until after the bombing. and it's a real mystery to figure out who he is. over the years there has been suggestions he was some kind of an intelligence agent either working for the germans to spy on the neo-nazi agents or directly for some u.s. intelligence or law-enforcement agency. they're also suggestion that he was a true believing nazi and his grandfather was one of the early members of the nazi party and maybe he wanted to wage war against the federal government and was a true believer. i talked to him for four days straight and it was absolutely fascinating. the reason he became involved in the investigation was right merrily because he had met mcveigh had a gun show in 1993. he had given mcveigh his business card in two weeks before the bombing mcveigh made a phonecall to him and he was asking if he was going to be coming here shortly which raises the question did mcveigh go to the city in the day before the bombing and in the book i found no conclus