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'''Charles Flato''' also '''Charles Floto''' (May 27, 1908 - January 1, 1984) was a writer, [[American Communist Party]] member and a Soviet agent.  

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''Charles Flato''' also '''Charles Floto''' (May 27, 1908 - January 1, 1984) was a writer, [[American Communist Party]] member and a Soviet agent.  

Flato was employed by the United States government and spied for the Soviet intelligence during [[World War II]]. Flato suffered from polio as a child which left him with a hunchback and caused him to walk with a cane. He married [[Lucy Burman]] also a Communist Party member.

Flato was employed by the United States government and spied for the Soviet intelligence during [[World War II]]. He married [[Lucy Burman]] also a Communist Party member.

From 1937 to 1941 Flato worked as an investigator and report writer for the civil liberties subcommittee of the Senate Labor Committee. He also served under Nelson Rockefeller in the Latin American division of the Board of Economic Warfare during World War II.

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 [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) during [[World War II]]. Flato worked in the Blockade and Supply Branch of the BEW, the Senate Committee on Education and Labor chaired by Senator [[Robert M. La Follette, Jr.]], and the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].  

 

Flato worked in the Blockade and Supply Branch of the [[Board of Economic Warfare]], the [[LaFollette Committee|Civil Liberties Subcommittee]], 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".

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".

* ''United States Social Security Death Index''.

* ''United States Social Security Death Index''.

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC ''Contemporary Authors Online''], Gale, 2006. Reproduced in ''Biography Resource Center''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.  

*[http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC ''Contemporary Authors Online''], Gale, 2006. Reproduced in ''Biography Resource Center''. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.  

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