About
Clinton Van Zandt
Clinton
Van Zandt was with the FBI for 25 years where he served as a
Supervisor with the FBI's internationally respected Behavioral
Science or "Silence of the Lambs" Unit. He was also
the FBI's Chief Hostage Negotiator and managed the FBI's Major
Case/Crisis Management Program. Prior to this he was an Agent
with US Army Intelligence and is a Vietnam War veteran. He has
been the primary hostage negotiator for numerous national
& international kidnap & hostage situations and he has
testified before the US Senate.
As
an FBI Profiler and Hostage Negotiator, he personally
negotiated with Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh in
Waco, Texas and he has conducted negotiations that have
brought about the release of hostages held by prison rioters,
and kidnap victims held by both South American guerrillas and
terrorists in the Philippines. Clinton Van Zandt correctly
profiled Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on the day of
that fateful bombing and also led the analytical team that
helped to identified the "Unabomber."
A
well-known author and television and radio commentator
concerning crime and human behavior, he has made more
television appearances than any other FBI agent in history
including 3,000 national and international TV shows (NBC,
MSNBC, Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel,
and NPR) and has appeared on programs such as The Today
Show, Larry King Live, Dr. Phil, Fox and Friends, Charlie
Rose, Inside Edition, Anderson Cooper 360, The NBC Nightly
News, The View, Meet the Press, The O'Reilly Factor, Imus in
the Morning, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Clint’s
life & career have been profiled in New Yorker Magazine
and Court TV aired a biography on his life called
“The Negotiator.”
Clinton
Van Zandt's newest book, Facing Down Evil, Life On The Edge
As An FBI Hostage Negotiator," has been published in
several foreign languages, as a book on tape, and as a
Reader's Digest Condensed Book. His book “Dynamic
Processes of Crisis Negotiation,” was awarded the 1998
“Best Book Award” by the International Association for
Conflict Management. In addition to his weekly and sometimes
daily television appearances, he writes a weekly Internet
column for MSNBC.com that is read by 1/2 million viewers each
week.
Some
of Clinton's career accomplishments:
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Personally
negotiated with Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh in
Waco, Texas, then correctly predicted his final actions
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Correctly
profiled Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, on the day of
that fateful bombing
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Led
the analytical team that identified the "Unabomber"
Clinton
Van Zandt's seminars, lectures and after dinner speeches are
exciting, interesting, dynamic, educational and humorous at
appropriate times, and he leaves his audiences with valuable
insights and critical information that can help them better
understand human behavior, and perhaps even save their lives!
