More than 200 very powerful or well-known individuals from all over the world declared that they want to participate in a closed event of a secret society whose agenda included how religious cults or closed groups of influence are created or operate, topics on sex, even the possibility of a Third World War. As WIRED reveals, a set of files from a secret society, whose members consist of powerful personalities of politics and the global economy, leaked recently on the internet... The reason is Dialog, a private, closed club co-founded in 2006 by billionaire Peter Thiel, and which gathers US officials, foreign government actors, and Silicon Valley executives in annual retreats.
Dialog for two decades refuses to reveal its members, but a well-known hacker group based in Switzerland intercepted critical information and published it. A separate source provided WIRED with the registration list for the Dialog retreat of 2026, which names 222 individuals and records the membership status and the type of participation of each registrant. The retreat is scheduled for August 12–16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland. The same data describe a program of speeches, such as: Money buys happiness, Bring back nuclear weapons, Full speed toward World War III, and How is your love life?. Other speeches have as topic How to build a religion or How to build a party, which will be conducted by a former White House national security official.
The members…
The documents record as a member General Alexus Grynkewich, supreme commander of NATO in Europe and head of the US European Command, who assumed the position in July 2025 and appears on the list as participating in Dialog gatherings since 2021. It also mentions active officials of the Trump administration, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former head of intelligence for the Middle East, and an active US ambassador, along with founders and executives of large surveillance companies, data brokers, and advertising data brokers. These executives appear next to senior government officials who oversee their sectors. Auren Hoffman, chairman of Dialog, founded SafeGraph and the identification company LiveRamp, two of the most important data providers. In fact, he appears on the list along with the Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its jurisdiction over data privacy protection. The co-founder of Palantir Joe Lonsdale, whose software is used for case management in the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and for data fusion in the Pentagon and the intelligence community, appears in the same organization with the Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, a minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees the agencies with which Palantir cooperates. The leaked documents seem to show not only who belongs to Dialog but also who participates. Of the 222 registered for the 2026 retreat, according to the leaked data, 87 are marked as first-time participants. Others have a history of participation extending over a decade and a few reach back to the creation of the organization, 20 years ago. What is strange is that more than anything, the members of the organization have the following common pursuits: they all place emphasis on artificial intelligence and longevity. When asked in a registration form to predict the future, the participants returned repeatedly to the same topic: that AI will reshape work, war, education, and beliefs within a few years. Some predict mass job losses, others predict terrorism targeting data centers, defendants who will choose AI lawyers instead of public defenders, or a resurgence of religious fanaticisms. Social decay, one individual predicted, will continue to accelerate. The members also have talents such as mimicry, skiing, and psychedelic investigation of the nature of reality; one offers compassion and existential terror, another dinners, secrets, birthday remembrance. The suggestions for books to read lean toward established and optimization-oriented works: from Marcus Aurelius and Milan Kundera to Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke, Outlive by Peter Attia, and, by at least one participant, Zero to One by Thiel.
Matchmaking
The Dialog club also acts as a matchmaker. The participation form asks registrants if they are seeking love and offers to include answers Single Man, Single Woman, or Other. Another website, dating.dialog.org, hosts an application presented as meaningful connections for exceptional people. The form collects sensitive data, including the political orientation of each registrant, for which Dialog promises that it WILL NOT ever be shared in the application or with other participants. These data, as well as the matching answers, were exposed. The files are located in Airtable, a database. For each participant, Dialog records a membership status, each retreat in which the person has participated, a biography, their city of residence, and a private access token. WIRED is not publishing the tokens, which function as login credentials, nor the personalized account links containing them. The leaked registration list also names senior executives who are absent from the public catalog of 113: Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve who now serves on the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England, Hallie Hoffman, former general counsel and interim chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute, Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, an economist and Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago. It also mentions a group of executives of Google and Google DeepMind, among whom Tom Lue, who leads global affairs of the frontier AI unit of the company, and a journalist, Souad Mekhennet, a correspondent of The Washington Post. (She is mentioned as an organizer of an event titled Ulysses Book Club.) Otherwise, the secret society includes hedge fund and private equity billionaires, active and former foreign officials, television network actors, authors, and religious leaders. One of the many internal documents of Dialog that were left exposed in the same online database is a guide for event moderators, urging them to remind participants that everything is off the record and that comments must be concise and non-obvious. It also guides them to make short self-introductions so that display of status is avoided in a room full of senators, officials, and magnates. The discipline imposed by the group did not extend to its website. A separate page of Dialog, at app.dialog.org, presents a login screen for Dialog Global 2026, outside of Dublin. The page invites anyone who wants to log in via email or a Google account and presents no terms of use, no notice that the application is restricted to members, and no indication that an invitation is required. Dialog operates in the dark since its foundation. It organizes at least one annual meeting, with predetermined positions, coordinated sessions, and a rule that nothing of what is said is attributed by name. Previous gatherings have taken place at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona and at the San Clemente Palace in Venice, Italy, according to Axios, which first reported the plans of the group for a campus in the Washington area. It has been compared to a version of Bilderberg, the closed, without official minutes, meeting of Western political and business elites. The reports describe retreats of approximately 100 participants. The registration list of 2026 examined by WIRED includes 222 individuals. The statistician Andrew Gelman published one of the invitations of Dialog on his blog in 2022, describing its format and a participation fee of over 16,000 dollars. The retreat of 2014 is in the news this year when an invitation that had been forwarded to the financier Jeffrey Epstein came to light from the US Department of Justice of the Epstein files. A Jeff Epstein appears on an attached list of past participants, but in reality, it refers to a former CFO of Oracle, and not to the deceased convicted sex offender.
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