Israel and the White House denied as nonsense allegations that the Mossad tapped Monica Lewinsky’s sexually charged phone conversations with President Clinton and blackmailed him into calling off a search for an Israeli mole in the White House. The allegations, made in a book on the Mossad by a British author due out next week, mentions a 1997 episode during which the United States accused the Jewish state of having a high-level spy code-named MEGA.
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