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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.
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.
Flato was one of the names on a document produced by Alexander Vassilievof of Soviet agents. The list was dated March 15, 1945. [[Victor Perlo]] is said to have been the source of the information.<ref>[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/perloslist.html The Alger Hiss Story]</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>
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>