WHO ARE THE MEMBERS OF PETER THIEL’S SECRET ‘DIALOG’ SOCIETY?
The registration records appear to show people who are active Dialog members, and others who have attended retreats, run sessions or plan to attend for the first time this year (the event is scheduled for August in Ireland, according to Wired). The leak lists sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the so-called Paypal Mafia (former founders and early employees who worked at PayPal in the late 1990s and early 2000s), a former Middle East chief of intelligence, a sitting ambassador to the United States, private equity billionaires, network television actors and best-selling authors. Among those named by the Swiss hacker are:
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- General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe
- Treasury secretary Scott Bessent
- Army secretary Dan Driscoll
- Hallie Hoffman, acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration
- Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
- Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
- Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn)
- Wes Moore, Maryland governor
- Jared Polis, Colorado governor
- Tom Lue, general counsel and head of governance at Google DeepMind
- Randy Kroszner, a former governor of the Federal Reserve
- Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League
- Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute
- Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation
- Roger Myerson, Nobel laureate economist
- Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law
- Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO
- Scooter Braun, Music manager
- Ezra Klein, political commentator
- Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post reporter
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor
- Sophia Bush, actress
- Rick Warren, evangelical pastor
WHICH BILLIONAIRES WERE NAMED IN THE DIALOG LEAK?
- Elon Musk ($1.3 trillion)
- Eric Schmidt ($40.1 billion)
- Peter Thiel ($27.8 billion)
- Henry Kravis ($12.2 billion)
- Marcos Galperin ($6.8 billion)
- Mike Cannon-Brookes ($7.7 billion)
- Scott Cook ($4.4 billion)
- Barry Sternlicht ($3.1 billion)
- Nicolas Berggruen ($2.9 billion)
- John Arnold ($2.8 billion)
- Joe Lonsdale ($2.8 billion)
- Reid Hoffman ($2.7 billion)
SURPRISING FACT
A separate website, dating.dialog.org, looks to romantically match interested group members. The Dialog participant form asks registrants whether they are “looking for love” and promises to find “meaningful connections for exceptional people.”
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TANGENT
Dialog maintains an almost non-existent digital footprint—and its members have kept quiet about it in public—but small glimpses at the group have been revealed before. Last year, Axios reported leaders were looking to purchase a campus for Dialog in the Washington D.C. suburbs. Statistician Andrew Gelman published one of Dialog’s invitations to his blog in 2022 in a largely mocking post. Screenshots of the email revealed a $16,846 registration fee to the California event that was knocked down 70% after he used a discount code that was also sent to him. An invitation to the 2014 Dialog retreat at Sundance Resort in Utah was via the Epstein files after Harvard University physicist Lisa Randall forwarded her invitation to Jeffrey Epstein asking, “Is this worthwhile?” He “sundance is nice „ go.” British financier Ian Osborne also forwarded to Epstein with the note: “Same shit. Peter doesn’t even attend. I will tell him that he should stop them using his name.”
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further reading
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society (Wired)
Scoop: Dialog, a secretive forum, plans D.C.-area campus (Axios)