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== Later Life ==

== Later Life ==

Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced. He was invited to appear before the Jenner subcommitte at some point and was asked questions about his commuist affliations. It was reported that he "invoked the privilege" and refused to answer.<ref>''The Twenty Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower'', Chesly Manly, H. Regnery Co., 1957, pge 54.</ref> By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage he had designed and built in 1954 by the architect Serge Chermayeff.<ref>[http://ccmht.org/chermayeff.html Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Serge Chermayeff Projects on the Outer Cape]</ref> He lived 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. His article, "Medicine Looks at Nuclear War: Is there a Doctor in the Rubble?" was published in the June 9, 1962 issue of ''The Nation''. 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. He was invited to appear before the Jenner subcommitte at some point and was asked questions about his communist affliations. It was reported that he "invoked the privilege" and refused to answer.<ref>''The Twenty Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower'', Chesly Manly, H. Regnery Co., 1957, pge 54.</ref> By 1957, Flato lived alone in a cottage he had designed by the architect Serge Chermayeff and built in 1954.<ref>[http://ccmht.org/chermayeff.html Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Serge Chermayeff Projects on the Outer Cape]</ref> He lived 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. His article, "Medicine Looks at Nuclear War: Is there a Doctor in the Rubble?" was published in the June 9, 1962 issue of ''The Nation''. 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. He was one of the co-founders of the Medical Pharmaceutical Information Bureau, and wrote and edited for the publication ''Hospital Practice''. He was known to have also written scripts for medical documentaries.  

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. He was one of the co-founders of the Medical Pharmaceutical Information Bureau, and wrote and edited for the publication ''Hospital Practice''. He was known to have also written scripts for medical documentaries.  

Two years after Flato's death, Francis M. O’Brien, gave a lecture at the Portland Public Library as part of the Anthoensen Press Lecture Series. He gave a colorful description of Flato saying that, ''"Flato, not much more than three feet in height, with a hunchback and crippled legs, was a colorful man with a beard, who wore a broad-brimmed black fedora and a black cloak and got around with the aid of a walking stick, with which he would whack people who got in his way. He had great wit, had written for the Hound and Horn, a leading quarterly of the time, and was an authority on Brady photographs."''<ref>''Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look''</ref>

Two years after Flato's death, Francis M. O’Brien, gave a lecture at the Portland Public Library as part of the Anthoensen Press Lecture Series. He gave a colorful description of Flato saying that, ''"Flato, not much more than three feet in height, with a hunchback and crippled legs, was a colorful man with a beard, who wore a broad-brimmed black fedora and a black cloak and got around with the aid of a walking stick, with which he would whack people who got in his way. He had great wit, had written for the Hound and Horn, a leading quarterly of the time, and was an authority on Brady photographs."''<ref>''Books About Bookselling: A Backward Look''</ref>

   

   

It was only after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]], in 1991, when the files of the KGB opened to researchers and it was discovered Flato had been spying for the Soviets in the 1940's.

It was only after the fall of the [[Soviet Union]], in 1991, when the files of the KGB opened to researchers that it was discovered that Flato had been spying for the Soviets in the 1940's.

== References ==

== References ==