Person

Pineau, Roger

1916–1993

Roger Pineau was born in Chicago, Ill. on Nov. 17, 1916; he joined the Navy in 1942; released from active duty in 1950; worked for the Naval History Division until he was appointed chief of Far East Current Intelligence in the Dept. of State in 1957; he worked briefly with the Institute for Defense Analysis and returned to the State Department in 1962 as social science officer for cultural and educational affairs; in 1965, he joined the Smithsonian as managing editor of its press; during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s he was recalled to active duty on a number of occasions; in 1972 he was appointed director of the Navy Memorial Museum, from which he retired in 1978 to write, lecture, and appraise works of art; Pineau died on Nov. 22, 1993 in Bethesda, Md.