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On this episode of Newt's World, in the middle of April 2007, a short, bald and burly man

with a limp and a cane walked into the west wing of the White House. He carried a small briefcase

with a few folders chaotically jutting out. The man showed his diplomatic passport at the

entrance. He was under the impression that he would be brought directly to the Oval Office

for a private meeting with the president. But instead, the guards were under orders to

keep his name off the official visitor logs and to clandestinely escort him to the office

of National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley. Inside two other men were waiting. Hadley's

deputy, Elliot Abrams, and a surprise guest, the vice president of the United States, Dick

Cheney. The man that real had gathered to meet with Mayor Dagan, the renowned and feared

head of the Mossad, Israel's legendary foreign spy agency, and the equivalent of the CIA.

A few days earlier, Prime Minister A. Hood, Omer, had called president George to be Bush,

and told him that Dagan would be coming to Washington with some important information.

I'd appreciate if you could meet him, Omer told Bush. The request phrased in a way that

seemed urgent, took Bush and his staff by surprise.

Head of state, even close allies like Omer, don't usually ask the president to meet the

directors of their intelligence agencies alone. If they ever do meet them, it is almost always

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