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From 1937 to 1941 Flato worked as an investigator and report writer for the [[Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties]] of the  Labor Committee. He also served under [[Nelson Rockefeller]] in the Latin American division of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] during [[World War II]].  Flato worked in the Blockade and Supply Branch of the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW), the Senate Committee on Education and Labor chaired by Senator [[Robert M. La Follette, Jr.]], and the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].  

From 1937 to 1941 Flato worked as an investigator and report writer for the [[Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties]] of the  Labor Committee. He also served under [[Nelson Rockefeller]] in the Latin American division of the [[Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] during [[World War II]].  Flato worked in the Blockade and Supply Branch of the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW), the Senate Committee on Education and Labor chaired by Senator [[Robert M. La Follette, Jr.]], and the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].  

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".

Flato 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 became a literary scout for the Houghton Mifflin Company in 1944<ref>[http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00239 Houghton Mifflin Company Contracts, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.]</ref> and resigned from the government and moved to San Fransico in about mid July 1945.

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>   

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>