A 3rd uninvited guest got into White House dinner

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur to the Nov. 24 state dinner at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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The Secret Service announced this afternoon that a third crasher made it into the White House state dinner made famous by the uninvited Tareq and Michaele Salahi.

An agency spokesman wouldn't divulge the name or even the gender of the crasher, who appears to have made his or way in completely separately from the now-infamous horse-country reality-show hopefuls -- exposing a completely separate area of weakness in the perimeter around the president.

In a statement, the Secret Service said the uninvited guest gained entree with the official Indian delegation: "The subject traveled from a local hotel, where the official Indian delegation was staying, and arrived at the dinner with the group, which was under the responsibility of the Department of State... This individual went through all required security measures along with the rest of the official delegation at the hotel, and boarded a bus/van with the delegation guests en route to the White House."

And yet, this person was not on any list authorizing his or her presence at the White House. The Secret Service said they have already made "procedural changes" to deal with the way foreign delegations are cleared.

The agency also said there's nothing "to indicate that this individual went through the receiving line or had contact with the President or first lady." The White House had not yet responded to our inquiries about whether the interloper was seated at the dinner.

The Secret Service released their statement following a report by Ronald Kessler, a journalist who blogs at Newsmax.com. Kessler reported that the agency discovered the third crasher after examining surveillance video of arriving guests -- and found one tuxedoed man who did not match any name on the guest list.