“Dialog,” an exclusive, highly secretive association founded by billionaire technology investor and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, has had its internal records exposed online. The leaked documents reveal the identities of influential figures spanning US politics, finance, national security, and technology who have participated in the group’s private gatherings.

According to a report by WIRED, the society’s internal directories and registry records were left exposed on the internet, laying bare the attendee lists for its highly restricted events.

Established by Thiel in 2006, Dialog is an invitation-only private organization that convenes US officials, foreign government representatives, and Silicon Valley executives for off-the-record annual retreats. For nearly two decades, the organization has consistently declined to disclose its membership rolls.

The exposure began when a directory embedded in the source code of the group’s website was discovered by Swiss hacker maia arson crimew. Known for previously exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the systems of security camera firm Verkada, the hacker told WIRED that the directory was uncovered via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified the authenticity of the directory’s contents.

Separately, a source provided WIRED with the registration list for Dialog’s upcoming 2026 retreat.

The list features the names of 222 individuals, detailing each attendee’s membership status and designation, including classifications such as “active member” and “guest.” The retreat is scheduled to take place from August 12 to 16, 2026, at the Powerscourt Hotel, located just outside Dublin, Ireland.

The leaked data also details a program composed of closed-door sessions. Panel titles include: “Does Money (Really?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear Power,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” and “How Is Your Sex Life?”

Other scheduled discussions include a session titled “Start a Cult,” led by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com, and “Start a Party,” conducted by a former White House national security official.

While some of the documents contain the standard material of typical thought-leadership conferences, they also reveal an extraordinary convergence of institutional and private power.

Among the registry records is General Alexus Grynkewich, the Commander of US Air Forces Central Command who took office as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO and Commander of US European Command in July 2025. The leaked list indicates that Grynkewich has attended Dialog events since 2021.

The website directory also lists current Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the “PayPal Mafia,” a former Middle Eastern intelligence chief, and a sitting US ambassador. These names appear alongside the founders and executives of some of the United States’ largest surveillance, data brokerage, and advertising data firms.

These industry executives appear in the directory alongside the very regulators and lawmakers who oversee their sectors.

For instance, Dialog’s chairman, Auren Hoffman, co-founded SafeGraph, a location data broker, and LiveRamp, an identity-resolution firm—two pivotal suppliers in the consumer data economy.

Hoffman is listed in the directory alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who shapes financial data regulations, and Senator Ted Cruz, the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and data privacy authorities.

Similarly, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is listed in the same association directory as Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees the intelligence agencies with which Palantir contracts.

None of the individuals named in the WIRED report responded to requests for comment. Raffi Grinberg, who identifies himself on LinkedIn as Dialog’s executive director and is the author of the self-help book How to Be a Grown-Up, also did not respond to inquiries.

The registry records appear to document not only who holds membership in Dialog, but also who has confirmed attendance for upcoming events.

Of the 222 individuals registered for the 2026 event, 87 are marked as first-time attendees, according to the leaked records.

Others have histories with the group spanning more than a decade, with a select few dating back to the society’s founding 20 years ago. None of the registrants, including Grynkewich, utilized official government email addresses to register.

Instead, all participants registered using personal or corporate email accounts, effectively keeping their correspondence and attendance outside the purview of public records laws that apply to government email systems.

According to WIRED, the primary thread uniting the attendee list—beyond titles and offices—is a shared interest in artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future.

When prompted on the registration form to predict future trends, registrants repeatedly returned to a central theme: that artificial intelligence will thoroughly restructure commerce, warfare, education, and faith within a few years.

Several participants predicted mass unemployment and a subsequent return to labor unions and state-sponsored programs. Others anticipated an “AI winter,” domestic terrorism targeting data centers, defendants choosing AI-powered attorneys over public defenders, or a religious revival triggered by these technological shifts.

Another registrant predicted that “societal decay will continue to accelerate.”

Members also listed personal skills on their forms, ranging from “funhouse construction,” accent mimicry, backcountry skiing, and urban exploration to “meditative and psychedelic exploration into the nature of reality.”

One participant listed “compassion and existential dread” as personal talents, while another listed “dinner parties, keeping secrets, remembering birthdays.”

The book recommendations listed by participants are classic and optimization-oriented. Recommended texts include works by Marcus Aurelius and Milan Kundera, alongside Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets, Peter Attia’s Outlive, and—recommended by at least one attendee—Thiel’s own book, Zero to One.

Dialog also facilitates personal matchmaking. The registration form asks participants, “Are you looking for love?” and offers options to opt into a “future matchmaking” database as a “Single Male,” “Single Female,” or “Other.”

A separate website, dating.dialog.org, hosts an application promoted with the slogan: “meaningful connections for extraordinary people.”

The form also collects sensitive personal data, including the “political leaning” of each participant. Dialog pledges on the form that this information “will never be shared on the app or with other attendees.” However, this data and the matchmaking responses were both compromised in the leak.

The records are maintained on Airtable, a commercial database platform. For each participant, Dialog records their membership status, a history of all retreats attended, a biography, their city of residence, and a personal access token.

The leaked registry contains high-profile names that do not appear in the group’s public-facing directory. Among them are Randy Kroszner, a former Federal Reserve Governor who currently serves on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee; Hallie Hoffman, former general counsel and acting chief of staff for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL); Peter Goettler, President of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist from the University of Chicago.

The list also includes a contingent of Google and Google DeepMind executives, including Tom Lue, who manages global relations for the company’s pioneer AI division, as well as Washington Post national security correspondent Souad Mekhennet.

The remainder of the roster consists of hedge fund and private equity billionaires, current and former foreign officials, television actors, bestselling authors, and religious leaders.

Among the internal documents left exposed on the database was a guide for event moderators.

The document instructs moderators to remind participants that all discussions are strictly “off-the-record” and that comments must be concise and “non-obvious.”

Moderators are also instructed to keep introductions brief to “avoid status signifiers” in rooms crowded with senators, high-ranking officials, and corporate leaders.

Since its inception, Dialog has operated with a minimal public footprint. It hosts at least one meeting per year where seating is pre-assigned, sessions are structured by moderators, and strict non-attribution rules apply to all remarks.

According to Axios, which first reported on the group’s plans to establish a physical campus in the Washington, DC area, past meetings have been held at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona and the San Clemente Palace in Venice, Italy.

The society has frequently been described as a technology-sector equivalent of the Bilderberg meetings, where Western political and business elites convene behind closed doors.

In 2022, statistician Andrew Gelman published one of Dialog’s invitation letters on his blog, revealing the event’s format and a registration fee exceeding $16,000.

The invitation list for the group’s 2014 meeting re-entered public scrutiny this year after the US Department of Justice released files showing Jeffrey Epstein was among approximately 150 invitees. Whether Epstein actually attended the meeting remains unclear.