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== Career as Soviet Spy ==

== Career as Soviet Spy ==

Flato began working for the United States government in 1934.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/uscommunistparty01unit/uscommunistparty01unit_djvu.txt "U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"]</ref>  In May 1935 Flato joined the Communist Party.<ref>[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskylist.html The Alger Hiss Story, "Gorsky's List", No. 72.]</ref> His party alias was C.D. Manchester.<ref>The Alger Hiss Story, "Gorsky's List", No. 72.</ref> He married [[Lucy Burman]] also a Communist Party member. From 1937 to 1941 Flato worked as an investigator and report writer for the [[Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties]] of the Labor Committee. Flato was employed by the United States government and spied for Soviet intelligence during [[World War II]]. 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]]. Jane Foster Zlatovski, another Soviet agent on the BEW wrote that Flato was her closest friend on the board.<ref>''An Un-American Lady'', Jane Foster, London, 1980</ref>

Flato began working for the United States government in 1934.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/uscommunistparty01unit/uscommunistparty01unit_djvu.txt "U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"]</ref>  In May 1935 Flato joined the Communist Party.<ref>[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/gorskylist.html The Alger Hiss Story, "Gorsky's List", No. 72.]</ref> His party alias was C.D. Manchester.<ref>The Alger Hiss Story, "Gorsky's List", No. 72.</ref> He married [[Lucy Burman]] also a Communist Party member. From 1937 to 1941 Flato worked as an investigator and report writer for the [[Senate Subcommittee on Civil Liberties]] of the Labor Committee. Flato was employed by the United States government and spied for Soviet intelligence during [[World War II]]. 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 was a senior information specialist for the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].<ref>"U. S. Communist Party assistance to foreign Communist governments ; (Medical Aid to Cuba Committee and Friends of British Guiana) : hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, November 14-15 1962"</ref> Jane Foster Zlatovski, another Soviet agent on the BEW wrote that Flato was her closest friend on the board.<ref>''An Un-American Lady'', Jane Foster, London, 1980</ref>

Flato is mentioned in [[Venona]] transcript #588 of April 29, 1944. His 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".<ref>Alexander Vassiliev's original Russian hand-written notes titled [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html#_ftnref48 "A.Gorsky's Report to S.R. Savchenko, 23 December 1949"].</ref> In another Venona transcript, he is believed to be codename "Char".

Flato is mentioned in [[Venona]] transcript #588 of April 29, 1944. His 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".<ref>Alexander Vassiliev's original Russian hand-written notes titled [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page44.html#_ftnref48 "A.Gorsky's Report to S.R. Savchenko, 23 December 1949"].</ref> In another Venona transcript, he is believed to be codename "Char".