23 min

#8: Gary Noesner - FBI Hostage Negotiator Listeners

    • Society & Culture

Gary Noesner was the FBI negotiator at Waco in 1993, where David Koresh and the Branch Davidians waged a 51-day siege against authorities. This is just one of the many high-profile cases Gary has worked on, and we wondered what a career in negotiating life-or-death situations teaches you about listening. 
His new memoir is called Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

Gary Noesner was the FBI negotiator at Waco in 1993, where David Koresh and the Branch Davidians waged a 51-day siege against authorities. This is just one of the many high-profile cases Gary has worked on, and we wondered what a career in negotiating life-or-death situations teaches you about listening. 
His new memoir is called Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

23 min

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