Peter Thiel's secret society Dialog member list leaked, including Musk, Trump's son-in-law, former Google CEO, Silicon Valley tycoons, U.S. Treasury Secretary...

Wired reports that Dialog—an invitation-only organization co-founded by Peter Thiel in 2006 that has, for twenty years, refused to publicly disclose its member roster—had its 2026 closed-door retreat registration list exposed online due to a data leak: 222 people, including the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, current senators, the Army Secretary, NATO’s top commander of European Allied Forces, and several Silicon Valley executives.
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• What is the organization Dialog
• How was the list leaked
• Who is on the list
• The leak is not just names
• The agenda ranges from “building a cult” to “guiding World War III”
• The 2014 list included Epstein

Key Summary

• In a June 16 report, 《Wired》 says that the invitation-only organization Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel in 2006, had its 2026 retreat registration list leaked, revealing 222 registrants
• The list includes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Senator Ted Cruz, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, NATO’s top commander of European Allied Forces Alexus Grynkewich, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and others
• The leak traces back to an unrestricted directory in the site’s code, exposed by hacker maia arson crimew via an anonymous tip, containing political leanings, biometric data, and login credentials

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For the past twenty years, an organization called Dialog has repeatedly refused to explain publicly who its members are. According to 《Wired》, this roster has now been made public online due to a data leak.

What leaked was Dialog’s 2026 closed-door retreat registration list, containing 222 people; of them, 87 are first-time attendees. Wired says it has independently verified the contents of this batch of data.

What is Dialog

According to the report, Dialog was co-founded in 2006 by tech investor Peter Thiel. It is a private, invitation-only organization that brings together U.S. officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives, holding a “non-public record” closed-door retreat at least once every year. The report describes it as the tech version of the Bilderberg meeting (Bilderberg), bringing together Western political and business elites.

The organization’s current chair is Auren Hoffman, founder of SafeGraph and LiveRamp, and Raffi Grinberg, who describes himself as executive director, is the author of the book《How to Be a Grown Up》。

The retreats operate under a set of clear rules, including assigned seating, discussions led by a moderator, and the requirement that all remarks “cannot be dismissed because of the speaker.” Attendees are told to be reminded that “all records must be kept confidential,” and encouraged to make brief but “not shallow” comments. Even self-introductions must be brief, with the aim of “avoiding displaying social status.”

How was the list leaked

The first thing revealed was a directory in the code of the dialog.org website. The source is the Swiss hacking activist maia arson crimew, who previously publicized the U.S. government’s No Fly List and also hacked surveillance-camera company Verkada.

crimew told Wired that she learned of this directory through an anonymous tip she received.

The report says Dialog’s data is stored in the Airtable business database, and the app page at app.dialog.org has not set terms of service, access restrictions, or invitation verification—any visitor can directly view the webpage’s source code.

After that, another source provided Wired with the complete registration list for the 2026 retreat.

According to the roster, the founder of Airtable is also one of the members.

Who is on the list

According to Wired, this list records each registrant’s membership status (active member or guest). Those who were listed span the U.S. government, the military, finance, and the technology sector:

• Government and military: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Senator Ted Cruz, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, Jim Himes, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, NATO’s top commander of European Allied Forces Alexus Grynkewich, plus two other current senators and a U.S. ambassador
• Technology and business: Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, OpenAI chairman Greg Brockman, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Google and Google DeepMind executives, and six members of the “PayPal Mafia”
• Finance and policy: former Federal Reserve officials, current member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee Randy Kroszner, former FBI chief legal counsel Hallie Hoffman, Nobel laureate Roger Myerson
• Other fields: Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Peter Goettler, chairman of the Cato Institute, Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation, Souad Mekhennet, a national security correspondent for The Washington Post

The leak includes more than just names

Wired points out that the leaked information goes far beyond a guest list. It includes each participant’s political leanings. Yet Dialog had promised members that this information “will never be shared in the app or with other participants.”

In addition, there is a “seeking love” matching field, recording whether registrants selected single men, single women, or other options, as well as the attendees’ biometric data, residential city, and past attendance records. The roster even includes private access permissions that could be used to log in. Wired says it has not made this part public.

The agenda ranges from “building a cult” to “guiding World War III”

The 2026 retreat is scheduled for August 12 to 16, held at the Powerscourt Hotel outside Dublin, Ireland. The agenda sessions revealed by Wired include: “Can money buy happiness,” “Restart nuclear power,” “Guide World War III,” “Battlefield technology,” and “What’s your sex life like?”.

One session called “Building a Cult” is hosted by the founder of the Christian social website Pray.com; another session, “Building a Political Party,” is led by a former White House national security official. The report mentions that the registration fee for the 2022 retreat was over 16,000 U.S. dollars.

Wired also compiled some attendees’ views on the future: they believe AI will reorganize work, war, education, and beliefs within a few years. Some foresee large-scale workers being replaced and unions making a comeback; others predict an “AI winter,” terrorist attacks targeting data centers, or a revival of religion.

The 2014 list included Epstein

The report also mentions an earlier record: in the 2014 retreat’s invite list of about 150 people, Jeffrey Epstein’s name appeared. However, it is currently unclear whether he actually attended that year.

In response to the report, Wired said that none of the individuals named responded, and Raffi Grinberg—who claims to be Dialog’s executive director—also did not respond.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Dialog?

Dialog is a private invitation-only organization co-founded by Peter Thiel in 2006. It gathers U.S. officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives for annual closed-door retreats with non-public records. It has refused to disclose its members for twenty years and has been described as the tech industry’s version of the Bilderberg meeting.

What was leaked about the Dialog list this time?

Wired obtained the registration list for the 2026 retreat with 222 names, including member statuses, political leanings, biometric data, residential cities, and login credentials. The data originated from an unrestricted directory in the website’s code, exposed by hacker maia arson crimew through an anonymous tip.