INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Charles Pineo, civil and sanitary engineer, discusses working for the IIAA from 1942-64 in Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Honduras, and Washington D.C.: building water and sewerage systems, IIAA policies and personnel, responsibilities and duties, hospital programs, government foreign relations and policies, work with the Pan-American Health Organization, and work as a private consultant. He also discusses pre-IIAA work on dams in the U.S. and work in the Panama Canal Zone. Also discusses different cultures, climate, people, religion, and politics in Latin America.

Memoir, 46 pp. Interview by James D. Williams, 1985 Donated by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University, New York RESTRICTED: May be read but not quoted, cited, or reproduced.