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During the 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidians led by cult leader David Koresh in Waco, Texas, the negotiation effort was coordinated by FBI Quantico SSAS Gary Noesner from February 28 to March 25. He was replaced by agent Clinton R. Van Zandt during the second half of the siege, from March 23 to April 20.

The last case he worked before his retirement from the FBI was the D.C. sniper attacks.

Special Agent Noesner was the chief negotiator with the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group, Crisis Management Unit, at the FBI Academy. Apart from many Middle Eastern terrorist and counterintelligence investigations, Noesner negotiated more than 120 kidnappings for the FBI, experiences that led him to travel from Africa to the Philippines. He also played key U.S. investigative roles in the hijackings of the Achille Lauro, TWA Flight 847, Pan Am Flight 73 and Kuwait Airways Flight 422, and was deployed to Lockerbie, Scotland, after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. He retired in 2003, after 30 years in that position, and became Vice President of Crisis and Security Management of Control Risks Group, LLC in Washington, DC.

Graduated from Florida Southern College in 1972.