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by Mark Silva

It turns out that Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Virginia couple who made their way into the White House's first State Dinner without invitations, weren't alone.

A third attendee arrived without an invitation, and entered with the official delegation of Indian Prime Manmohan Singh, for whom the dinner was held in November.

The Secret Service said today that an investigation into the security breach that enabled the Salahis to waltz into the White House and shake hands with the president and pose for pictures with other White House officials "has revealed that a third individual, who was not on the White House guest list, entered the State Dinner.''

There is no indication, however, that the individual had any contact with President Obama, the agency said.

The publicly unidentified person, who traveled with Indian officials from the hotel where they were staying, "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," the Secret Service said in a statement.

Ed Donovan, Secret Service spokesman, declined to "get into all the particulars" on the discovery of a third gate uninvited guest. The Service already has disciplined some officers involved in the Salahi's now-notorious gate-crashing of the Indian dinner.

Congress is looking into the Salahis' far more public appearance. The couple have maintained that they thought they were entitled to attend the dinner, based on email correspondence with a friend at Defense who was attempting to help them attend an arrival ceremony. They have taken the "Fifth,'' however, in declining to appear before Congress. And the White House has cited executive privilege in declining to let Social Secretary Desiree Rogers appear before a congressional committee.

Wire services contributed.