# Mike Mastrovito

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*Twenty-five-year Secret Service veteran; founder and first director of the Secret Service Intelligence Division; later, after a forced retirement, a CIA contractor specializing in Greek terrorism; close colleague of John Kiriakou in Athens. Started his career at the end of the Eisenhower administration, was in Dallas with President Kennedy, and was effectively removed from the Secret Service after Sara Jane Moore's 1975 attempt on President Ford — having interviewed Moore two weeks earlier on a threatening letter she had sent.*

- **Career:** 25-year Secret Service veteran, end of Eisenhower administration through 1975
- **Founded:** Secret Service Intelligence Division (first director; 'for a while it was just him')
- **In Dallas with:** President Kennedy
- **End of Secret Service career:** Sara Jane Moore's 1975 attempt on President Ford, whom he had interviewed two weeks earlier
- **Post-Secret Service:** CIA contractor specializing in Greek terrorism; worked closely with John Kiriakou in Athens

**Mike Mastrovito** was a twenty-five-year Secret Service veteran, the founder and first director of the Secret Service Intelligence Division, and — after his forced retirement from the Service following the 1975 [Sara Jane Moore](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/sara-jane-moore) assassination attempt on President Ford — a CIA contractor specializing in Greek terrorism. Per [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou), Mastrovito was *"an awesome human being"* and his close colleague during Kiriakou's Athens tour.[1][2]

## Secret Service career

Mastrovito's Secret Service career spanned from the end of the Eisenhower administration through 1975. *"He was in Dallas with Kennedy."* He kept a scrapbook of his service history.[2]

He convinced Secret Service leadership to create an Intelligence Division and became its first director. *"For a while it was just him. He was the Intelligence Division."* Any threatening letter sent to the White House was routed to him personally.[2][3]

## End of the career

In September 1975 a threatening letter from [Sara Jane Moore](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/sara-jane-moore) reached his desk. Mastrovito flew to San Francisco, interviewed her at her apartment, and got her verbal promise that she would not harm President Ford. Two weeks later Moore was on a San Francisco street with a .44 and fired at Ford. Ford survived. Mastrovito was told: *"It's time for you to go."*[4][5]

## Post-Secret Service: CIA contractor in Athens

Mastrovito subsequently became a CIA contractor specializing in Greek terrorism. He and Kiriakou worked closely together in Athens.[2]

## See also

- [Sara Jane Moore](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/sara-jane-moore)
- [Revolutionary Organization 17 November](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/revolutionary-organization-17-november)

## See also

- [Sara Jane Moore](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/sara-jane-moore)
- [Revolutionary Organization 17 November](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/revolutionary-organization-17-november)
- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)

## Sources

1. The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446 (2026-05-04), at 1:16:49. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeTlw4Zy3o&t=4609s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-04-cleared-hot-446-cost-of-truth/
2. The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446 (2026-05-04), at 1:17:21. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeTlw4Zy3o&t=4641s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-04-cleared-hot-446-cost-of-truth/
3. The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446 (2026-05-04), at 1:17:53. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeTlw4Zy3o&t=4673s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-04-cleared-hot-446-cost-of-truth/
4. The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446 (2026-05-04), at 1:18:23. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeTlw4Zy3o&t=4703s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-04-cleared-hot-446-cost-of-truth/
5. The Cost of Telling the Truth | John Kiriakou | Ep. 446 (2026-05-04), at 1:19:26. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JeTlw4Zy3o&t=4766s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-04-cleared-hot-446-cost-of-truth/

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