A leaked directory tied to Peter Thiel’s secretive Dialog network exposed the names and contact details of people connected to the invitation-only group, along with private planning for a retreat scheduled for Aug. 12-16, 2026, near Dublin, Ireland.
The files name 222 people on the registration list for the retreat and lay out off-the-record sessions with titles including “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies” and “How’s Your Sex Life?” The exposed records also show that a source provided the list to a news outlet, and that the contents were independently verified after a directory surfaced in the website’s code, first revealed by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew.
Dialog has spent 20 years declining to disclose its members, even as it has brought together U.S. officials, foreign government figures and Silicon Valley executives at closed-door annual retreats. The leaked website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two U.S. senators, six members of the PayPal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence and a sitting ambassador to the United States. It also lists Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent alongside Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, and places Sen. Ted Cruz in the same record as Hoffman.
The leak goes further than a list of names. Dialog Participant Profiles include employers, locations, email addresses, assistants’ email addresses, birthdates, mobile numbers, emergency contacts, dietary restrictions, bios, predictions for 2031, fun facts, talents, interests, book recommendations and whether attendees are looking for love at Dialog. Participants are also asked to state where they fall politically, with choices ranging from Far Left to Far Right.
The exposed list names 113 prominent people connected to Dialog, including Bessent, Sarah Bond, Cruz, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sam Harris and Bryan Johnson. But the data does not show whether those people are members, conference participants or guests, leaving the leaked records broad enough to suggest a wider circle than the registration list alone.
That uncertainty sits next to a larger question: who had access to the internal records in the first place, and how they were exposed online is still unknown. Dialog purchased land outside Washington last year for a permanent campus, a sign the group is planning beyond single retreats even as the latest leak lifts the curtain on a network that has stayed private since 2006.
The release also puts a spotlight on the group’s reach at a moment when Thiel’s political influence remains under scrutiny. Federal data show he donated more than $1.7 million to candidates and political parties in 2024, and his own words about democracy and freedom have long framed debate around the circle he helped create. For now, the Dublin retreat is the next fixed point. What the leak changes is not just who is named, but how much harder it will be for Dialog to keep the rest hidden.
