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.