The Public’s Right to Know: An Interview with Sheryl Shenberger, the Director of the National Declassification Center
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🗓️ 24 November 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 1:46.6 | Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence. We are joined today by Cheryl Shenberger, who is the director of the National Declassification |
| 2:00.4 | Center at the National Archives. She was, is the first director in the history of this |
| 2:05.1 | organization. She came to the National Archives in 2010 from the Intelligence Community |
| 2:09.5 | where she served both as an analyst and a desk officer. She has also worked closely with the National Archives, the Intelligence Community, and Department of Defense agencies to coordinate review of historically valuable records that contain CIA information. She also led CIA's declassification review efforts at the National Archives. |
| 2:26.0 | As the classification program manager at CIA, she spearheaded efforts to improve processes that |
| 2:31.3 | resulted in more efficient release of information. |
| 2:34.3 | Prior to working in the declassification field, Ms Shenberger served as a branch chief in the CIA |
| 2:38.8 | Counterterrorism Center between 2001 and 2003, as a desk officer with the CIA Crime and Narcotics Center |
| 2:45.3 | between 2000 and 2001, and as a senior aid imagery analyst for the National |
| 2:50.1 | Imagery and Mapping Agency between 96 and 2000. Thank you, Cheryl, for taking the time to talk this here. imagery and |
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