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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
pelespirithttps://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
A trove of internal records from a secret society for powerful figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private.
The group, called Dialog, is a private, invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by the billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. It convenes US officials, foreign government figures, and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats. Dialog has spent two decades declining to disclose its members.
A directory in the website’s code was first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. Known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, crimew tells WIRED the directory surfaced via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents.
A source separately provided WIRED with the registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat, which names 222 people and records what the list describes as each registrant’s membership status and attendee type, including “active member” and “guest.” The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.
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A_norny_mousseI think that concentrating too much wealth / power into a person’s hands affects their mental health.
I think cause and effect are exactly opposite here: you have to be exceptionally, sociopathically greedy to want to become that rich, and then work towards it. Imagine all the actively harmful and antisocial decisions each billionaire has to make to increase their wealth. I believe most people just aren’t cut out for it.
But of course wealth/power then serves as an amplifier.
It’s definitely this. The Venn diagram between psychopaths and billionaires is a circle. Hell it’s almost a circle just with CEOs in general.
The lack of empathy is a massive advantage to operating in the corporate world.
I’m not sure, I think money does corrupt all but the steeliest of hearts. Right now I wish I made a little more so we could accomplish several goals we want. Once those are done, there are loftier long-term goals! Like many, I doubt I’ll ever be satisfied with my income, because I’m ambitious in the rest of my life. If I won a million dollars, I like to think I’d be satisfied because I could get those things done, although I’d still have to work. But… at that point I’d want more, so I could retire early and have more time to spend on the rest of my life. Now if somehow I got that much money - I like to think I’d be satisfied. But we can see time and again how that doesn’t happen. There’d be something else just out of reach. Our capability to want is near endless, and it’s a hunger that gets worse the more you feed it.
So really I don’t fool myself into thinking I’m immune to it, and I’m not a sociopath.
To be clear, Thiel was A Bad Dude from the get-go, but his impact and influence has expanded immensely since he made his nut in the PayPal era (he’s one of the OG PayPal mafia, along with phony stark)
treadfulThe retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.
The Irish’ll know what to do.
Notable people on the Thiel List pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:
Chamath Palihapitiya
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta
Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies
Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft
Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox
Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe
Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian
Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit
NJ Senator Cory Booker
TX Senator Ted Cruz
CO Governor Jared Polis
CT Rep. Jim Himes
MD Gov. Wes Moore
Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
Tulsi Gabbard
Julian Castro
Jared Kushner
Elon Musk
LEONARD LEO
Grover Norquist
Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)
Larry Summers
Ezra Klein
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic
Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
There is overlap between that Dialog member list and the Epstein files. I don’t have time to go through it right now, but at first glance just skimming the Bluesky list, Larry Summers is in the Epstein files, as is Peter Attia.
I’d bet anything they’re not the only ones on both, either. If I get the opportunity I’ll look through it later and see if I can spot more.
jballsWTF is Jared Polis doing on this list? Maybe that explains his out of the blue decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters
acargitzOther talks include “Build-a-Cult,” moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Build-a-Party,” run by a former White House national security official.
Well… I don’t like that.
derAbsenderIreland! Do your thing!
Herbal GamerI found this rather amusing:
The form also gathers sensitive answers, including each registrant’s “political leaning,” which Dialog promises “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other participants, ever.” That data, and the matchmaking responses, were exposed in the leak.
Well that’s… fascinating. And kind of explains the trajectory of more than a few things in the recent-ish past.
Notable people on the Thiel List pulled from maia arson crimew’s Bluesky post:
Chamath Palihapitiya
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube
Charlie Songhurst, board director at Meta
Peter Brown, CEO, Renaissance Technologies
Sarah Bond, President of XBOX, Microsoft
Manuel Bronstein, chief product officer of Roblox
Greg Brockman, Co-founder of OpenAI, fmr CTO of Stripe
Mike Cannon-Brooks, Co-founder of Atlassian
Scott Cook, co-founder & chairman at Intuit
NJ Senator Cory Booker
TX Senator Ted Cruz
CO Governor Jared Polis
CT Rep. Jim Himes
MD Gov. Wes Moore
Tom Tugendhat, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
Tulsi Gabbard
Julian Castro
Jared Kushner
Elon Musk
LEONARD LEO
Grover Norquist
Bret Stephens (Associate Editor of the New York Times)
Larry Summers
Ezra Klein
Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent
Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic
Jon Levin, President, Stanford University.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
Stan McChrystal, Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
Rachel Brand, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
This dickhead keeps trying to be some kind of TED lecturer, but gets laughed at by everyone outside his billionaire circle-jerk.
You’re rich, dude. Go sit on a beach and leave us alone.
ZakThe list: https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog
- Immad Akhund - Founder & CEO, Mercury.
- Turki Al Faisal Al Saud - Founder, King Faisal Foundation. Fmr. Minister of Intelligence, Saudi Arabia.
- Reema Al-Saud - Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
- John Arnold - Co-Chair, Arnold Ventures. Fmr. Founder, Centaurus Advisors.
- Susan Athey - Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Fmr. Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Peter Attia - Physician, Attia Medical. Author, Outlive.
- Scott Belsky - Partner, A24 Films. Fmr. Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Product Officer, Adobe. Founder, Behance.
- Nicolas Berggruen - Founder & President, Berggruen Holdings.
- Scott Bessent - Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
- Preet Bharara - Fmr. U.S. Attorney, New York Southern District.
- Elizabeth Blackburn - Fmr. President, Salk Institute for Biomedical Studies. Nobel Prize winner.
- Sarah Bond - President of Xbox, Microsoft.
- Cory Booker - Senator (New Jersey), U.S. Senate.
- Rachel Brand - Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary, Walmart. Fmr. Associate Attorney General, U.S Department of Justice.
- Scooter Braun - CEO, Hybe America. Founder, Ithaca Holdings.
- Pete Briger - Principal & Chairman of the Board, Fortress Investment Group.
- Greg Brockman - Co-Founder & President, OpenAI. Fmr. CTO, Stripe.
- Manuel Bronstein - Chief Product Officer, Roblox.
- Peter Brown - CEO, Renaissance Technologies.
- Thasunda Brown Duckett - President & CEO, TIAA.
- Sophia Bush - Actress, One Tree Hill.
- Mike Cannon-Brookes - Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Atlassian.
- Cesar Carvalho - Co-Founder & CEO, Wellhub.
- Wences Casares - Founder & Fmr. CEO, Xapo Bank. Founder: Wanako Games, Banco Lemon, Lemon Wallet.
- Julian Castro - Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Bob Cialdini - Author, Influence.
- Matt Clifford - Prime Minister’s Advisor on AI Opportunities, U.K. Government. Co-Founder, Entrepreneur First.
- Caroline Cochran - Co-Founder & COO, Oklo.
- Matt Cohler - Fmr. General Partner, Benchmark.
- Scott Cook - Co-Founder & Chairman, Intuit.
- Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics & Director, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
- Ted Cruz - Senator (Texas), U.S. Senate.
- Adam D’Angelo - Co-Founder & CEO, Quora. Fmr. CTO, Facebook.
- Mitch Daniels - Fmr. Governor, State of Indiana. Fmr. President, Purdue University.
- Dan Driscoll - Secretary, U.S. Army.
- Charles Duhigg - Author: The Power of Habit, Supercommunicators.
- Steve Ells - Founder & Fmr. CEO, Chipotle.
- Tim Ferriss - Author: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef. Host, The Tim Ferriss Show.
- Marcos Galperin - Co-Founder & CEO, MercadoLibre.
- Atul Gawande - Author: Being Mortal, The Checklist Manifesto. Fmr. Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID.
- Tom Goldstein - Partner, Goldstein & Russell. Founder & Fmr. Publisher, SCOTUSblog.com.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Actor, 500 Days of Summer, Inception, Looper, Snowden.
- Adam Grant - Organizational Psychologist, Wharton School of Management. Author: Think Again, Originals, Give and Take.
- Severin Hacker - Co-Founder & CTO, Duolingo.
- Jonathan Haidt - Professor, Stern School of Business, NYU. Author: The Anxious Generation, The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind.
- Peggy Hamburg - Fmr. Commissioner, U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- Sam Harris - Podcast Host, Making Sense. Author: Free Will, Lying, Waking Up.
- Jim Himes - Congressman (Connecticut), U.S. House of Representatives.
- Auren Hoffman - CEO, NQB8. Chairman & Fmr. CEO, SafeGraph. Founder & Fmr. CEO, LiveRamp. Chairman, Dialog.
- Reid Hoffman - Partner, Greylock Partners. Co-Founder & Fmr. Executive Chairman, LinkedIn.
- Rob Hur - Fmr. Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Bob Jain - CIO, Millennium Management. Founder, Jain Family Institute.
- Bryan Johnson - Founder & CEO: Kernel, Blueprint.
- Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia.
- Gaurva Kapadia - Founder & CEO, XN.
- Karen Karniol-Tambour - Co-CIO, Bridgewater Associates.
- Garry Kasparov - Fmr. Member, Russian Opposition Movement’s Coordinating Council. Fmr. World Chess champion.
- Neal Katyal - Partner, Milbank. Fmr. Partner & Supreme Court Practice Leader, Hogan Lovells.
- Shahid Khaqan Abbasi - Fmr. Prime Minister, Pakistan. Founder, Airblue.
- Ezra Klein - Opinion Columnist, The New York Times. Founder & Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Vox. Host, The Ezra Klein Show.
- Tarō Kōno - Digital Minister, Japan. Fmr. Minister of Defense, Japan.
- Henry Kravis - Co-Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
- Jared Kushner - Founder, Affinity Partners.
- Jason Kwon - Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAI.
- Leonard Leo - Co-Chairman & Fmr. Executive Vice President, Federalist Society.
- Jon Levin - President, Stanford University.
- Howie Liu - Founder & CEO, Airtable.
- Joe Lonsdale - Founding Partner, 8VC. Co-Founder: Palantir, Addepar.
- Micky Malka - Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital.
- Stan McChrystal - Founder & CEO, McChrystal Group. Fmr. General, U.S. Army.
- Neal Mohan - CEO, YouTube.
- Lisa Monaco - Fmr. Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.
- Wes Moore - Governor, State of Maryland.
- Elon Musk - Founder & CEO, SpaceX. Co-Founder & CEO, Tesla Motors.
- Demet Mutlu - Founder & CEO, Trendyol Group.
- Vas Narasimhan - CEO, Novartis.
- Grover Norquist - President, Americans for Tax Reform.
- Mike Novogratz - CEO, Galaxy Digital. Fmr. CIO, Fortress Investment Group.
- Jim O’Neill - Nominee for Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Co-Founder, Thiel Fellowship.
- Chamath Palihapitiya - Founder & CEO, Social Capital LP. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.
- Benj Pasek - Songwriter & Producer: La La Land, The Greatest Showman, Dear Evan Hansen. Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony winner.
- Daniel Pink - Author: Drive, To Sell is Human, The Power of Regret. Fmr. Chief Speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.
- Steven Pinker - Professor, Harvard University. Author: Enlightenment Now, The Better Angels of Our Nature.
- Jared Polis - Governor, State of Colorado.
- Jonathan Ross - Founder & CEO, Groq.
- Robert Rubin - Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury. Fmr. Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
- Gretchen Rubin - Host, Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Author: The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies.
- Sheikh Nawaf Saud Nasir Al-Sabah - CEO, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
- Will Scharf - Co-Founder & CTO, Oscar Health.
- Mario Schlosser - Staff Secretary and Assistant to the President, U.S. White House.
- Eric Schmidt - Founder, Schmidt Futures. Fmr. CEO: Google, Alphabet.
- Dan Schulman - Fmr. President & CEO, PayPal.
- Drew Scott - Co-Founder, Scott Brothers Global. Co-Host, Property Brothers.
- Kim Scott - Author, Radical Candor.
- Pete Shadbolt - Founder & Chief Science Officer, PsiQuantum.
- Ali Siddiqui - Board Chair, OnZero. Fmr. Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S.
- Barry Silbert - Founder & CEO, Digital Currency Group.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter - CEO, New America. Professor, Princeton. Fmr. Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State.
- Charlie Songhurst - Board Director, Meta. Fmr. Head of Corporate Strategy, Microsoft.
- Jens Spahn - Member of Parliament, German Bundestag. Fmr. Federal Minister of Health, Germany.
- Scott Stephenson - Chairman, President & CEO, Verisk Analytics.
- Barry Sternlicht - Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Starwood Capital Group.
- Bret Stephens - Opinion Columnist & Associate Editor, The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Lawrence Summers - Fmr. President, Harvard University. Fmr. Secretary, U.S. Treasury.
- Astro Teller - Captain of Moonshots, X.
- Peter Thiel - Co-Founder: Founders Fund, Palantir, PayPal, Dialog.
- Nick Thompson - CEO, The Atlantic. Fmr. Editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine.
- John Townsend - Author, Boundaries.
- Tom Tugendhat - Member of Parliament, United Kingdom.
- Tim Urban - Writer & Illustrator, Wait But Why. Author, What’s Our Problem?
- Rick Warren - Author, The Purpose Driven Life. Podcast Host, Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope.
- Strauss Zelnick - Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software.
- Shivon Zilis - Director, Neuralink.
the_wizard_of_0ZI sometimes see these “leaks” as somewhat of a advertisement for their now justified crowd sourced security state. Gotta keep a eye on these plebs…. seee I told you so.
Update 6/16/2026, 5:47 pm EDT: WIRED updated this article… a small revision was also made to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative.
A shame. Good journalism would make them even more paranoid.
Joseph gordon levitt…that’s kind of a surprise.
LasherzIf you watched him give the dumbest take ever on “parental rights” and facial recognition to push child privacy laws you’d definitely understand it better. He’s a soulless husk
CharlesDarwin
tipicaldikhow careless of you to post this! we wouldn’t want anyone turning this into a hit list or anything like that now, would we?
WashedupcynicJared Polis - Governor, State of Colorado. Well I guess we know why he released Tina Peters.
Cory Booker - Senator (New Jersey), U.S. Senate. 100% shocked by this one.
They don’t call it the uniparty for nothing. He probably has orgies with Ted Cruz and the rest of the ghouls on the list (all of them)
Fair play to Wired to release this and draw attention to it when their former Editor in chief is on it.
There are also some names here that seem to be missing from elsewhere, maybe because they’re part of an earlier leak?
The leaked registration list also names senior figures absent from the public directory of 113: Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, a former general counsel and acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, the president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, the executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist at the University of Chicago.
Greenblat couldn’t have been more obvious
Where list
Can we stop fuckng pretending that facial recognition to use your own computer and adult content has anything to do with child safety when JASON GORDON LEVITT is in the same fucking group as the creepy ass roblox guy?
☂️-the actual shadowy cabal of puppetmasters commanding our lives. upside is everyone there seems to be made out of meat.
rustbuckettPlease enjoy the raw data - it was surprisingly easy to find (for the moment at least)
TenthrowHey OP we require that the title matches the headline of the article. Please update it and we won’t have to pull it down.
treesartlife
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northernlightsOh lol they try their best to be so secretive and their shitty webdev puts the list of attendants in the page’s source. Hilarious.
GutterRat42Shitty webdev, or devious? Are we sure they didn’t do it on purpose?
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by AI. 🤷
SuavevillainThe rich ruling class is a great example of money can’t unlame you.
People like Thiel and Musk are prime examples about why we should not permit that level of wealth accumulation - they are very, very dangerous to the rest of society and there is almost nothing to put them in check.
thiel is fleeing to ARGENTINA, his influence in the state is likely to weaken, just look at vance, he really is not able to function without thiel.
Palantir is a new branch of Mossad/cia surveillance for blackmail, genocide, state sponsored terrorism and other nefarious purposes. This group is just another pedophile class club doing and planning evil.
XanthraxHere’s a youtube video if you don’t want to read: (someordinarygamers)
I wish that video wasn’t so rambly and trying so hard to be amused. I can’t tell what’s fact and what’s speculation when they do that.
I think his bit is he pretends to be schizophrenic, but I agree. I like him because he breaks news quickly, and then I can find the article he’s referencing.
This man is our new Walter Cronkite and Steve from gamer’s nexus is the new Tarbell. We’re fucked.
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