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He resigned from the government and moved to San Fransico about mid July 1945. He is mentioned in [[Venona]] transcript #588 of April 29, 1944. Flato's complicity in espionage was corroborated by information exhumed from the NKVD archives in the 1990s.  He was also a member of the “Sound” and “Myrna” groups. His codename in the Gorsky memo is "Bob". In another Venona transcript, he is believed to be codename "Char".

He resigned from the government and moved to San Fransico about mid July 1945. He is mentioned in [[Venona]] transcript #588 of April 29, 1944. Flato's complicity in espionage was corroborated by information exhumed from the NKVD archives in the 1990s.  He was also a member of the “Sound” and “Myrna” groups. His codename in the Gorsky memo is "Bob". In another Venona transcript, he is believed to be codename "Char".

Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced. By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage near a beach on Cape Cod and worked as a freelance writer throughout the 60's and 70's. In 1957 he was the editor of the ''Complete Home Improvement Handbook''. He is known to have used at least one ghost writer in the form of a friend for an article printed in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in the early 1960's. ''The Golden Book of the Civil War'' was a children's book written by Flato and published in 1961.  

Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced. By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage near a beach on Cape Cod and worked as a freelance writer throughout the 60's and 70's. In 1957 he was the editor of the ''Complete Home Improvement Handbook''. ''The Golden Book of the Civil War'' was a children's book adapted by Flato and published in 1961. He is known to have used at least one ghost writer in the form of a friend for an article printed in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' on October 6, 1962.<ref>Saturday Evening Post, ''Parents Who Beat Children'', Charles Flato, October 6, 1962, Vol. 235, No. 35.</ref> 

After Peking resumed diplomatic relations with the United States, Flato wrote a six-part report on health care in China. The Chinese Medical Association invited him to travel through the country as their guest.

After Peking resumed diplomatic relations with the United States, Flato wrote a six-part report on health care in China. The Chinese Medical Association invited him to travel through the country as their guest.