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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> 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.

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 transferred 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 ==

Sometime in the 1950's he and his wife divorced.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Flato Relative's statement, Charles Flato was not a hunchbacked dwarf, January 17, 2006.]</ref> 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> According to counsel Alfred M. Nittle, "Flato appeared in hearings before the Senate Internal  

Sometime in the 1950s he and his wife divorced.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Charles_Flato Relative's statement, Charles Flato was not a hunchbacked dwarf, January 17, 2006.]</ref> He was invited to appear before the Jenner subcommitte at some point and was asked questions about his communist affiliations. 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> According to counsel Alfred M. Nittle, "Flato appeared in hearings before the Senate Internal  

Security Subcommittee, during the course of which he invoked the fifth amendment as a basis for refusal to answer questions, particularly relating to his Communist Party membership."<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 did, however, mention prominently Henry Folwer who was Secretary-Treasurer to the South's biggest [[Communist front]] organization, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.<ref>Traitors and Treason, Robert W. Pelton, Buy Books on the web, 2002, pages 220 & 221.</ref>   

Security Subcommittee, during the course of which he invoked the fifth amendment as a basis for refusal to answer questions, particularly relating to his Communist Party membership."<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 did, however, mention prominently Henry Folwer who was Secretary-Treasurer to the South's biggest [[Communist front]] organization, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.<ref>Traitors and Treason, Robert W. Pelton, Buy Books on the web, 2002, pages 220 & 221.</ref>