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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".

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> 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> Flato was transfered to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.<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> Flato was finally rated ineligible by the Civil Service Commission on loyalty grounds, and instructions were issued for his removal on April 23, 1945.<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> He 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> 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> Flato was transfered to the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion.<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> He was finally rated ineligible by the Civil Service Commission on loyalty grounds, and instructions were issued for his removal on April 23, 1945.<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> He resigned from the government and moved to San Fransico in about mid July 1945.

== Later Life ==

== Later Life ==