A trove of internal records from Dialog was left exposed online, and the leak pulled back the curtain on a private network that has kept its membership hidden for two decades. The records identify participants, list attendee types and include sensitive personal details tied to Peter Thiel's invitation-only society.
The exposure matters now because one of the files is a registration list for Dialog's 2026 retreat, scheduled for August 12-16 near Dublin, Ireland. That list names 222 people and sorts them as “active member” or “guest,” giving a rare view of who is inside a group that has long refused to say who belongs.
Dialog was cofounded in 2006 by Thiel and convenes US officials, foreign government figures and Silicon Valley executives at off-the-record annual retreats. A leaked program shows the range of the gathering: “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies” and “How's Your Sex Life?” are among the sessions, alongside talks called “Build-a-Cult” and “Build-a-Party.”
The leak also shows how much this circle overlaps with power. The directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence and a sitting ambassador to the United States. It places Auren Hoffman alongside Scott Bessent and Ted Cruz, while Joe Lonsdale appears in the same society as Dan Driscoll and Jim Himes. General Alexus Grynkewich is recorded as attending Dialog gatherings since 2021.
The records were first revealed by maia arson crimew, who said the directory surfaced via “an anonymous tip,” and WIRED independently verified the contents. That matters because Dialog has spent two decades declining to disclose its members, and the leak did what the group would not: it named people and exposed private details that were supposed to stay inside the room.
Raffi Grinberg, who lists himself as Dialog's executive director on his LinkedIn profile and is the author of How to Be a Grown-Up, sits at the center of the newly exposed paper trail. What remains unanswered is how the internal records and registration list were exposed online in the first place, but the bigger fact is already plain: a secretive society built around controlled access just lost control of its own ledger.
