Peter Thiel Leak Exposes 222 Dialog Retreat Registrants
A leaked trove of Dialog records exposed details from peter thiel's private society, including a 222-person registration list for its 2026 retreat. The records surfaced from a directory in the site's code and were independently verified after a Swiss hacktivist first pointed it out.
The list ties the invitation-only network to current U.S. officials, foreign government figures and Silicon Valley executives. It also names Auren Hoffman as chairman, with the leaked registration records marking him as an "active member" and listing him as a "guest" on the retreat materials.
Dialog 2026 retreat list
A source provided the 2026 retreat registration list, which names 222 people for a gathering scheduled for August 12-16 near Dublin, Ireland. The leaked materials also include off-the-record session titles such as "Money (Does?) Buy Happiness," "Bring Back Nuclear," "Navigating WWIII," "Battlefield Technologies," and "How’s Your Sex Life?"
The documents also mention sessions titled "Build-a-Cult" and "Build-a-Party." The range of titles puts the retreat materials in direct view, rather than leaving only the society's existence exposed.
Thiel and Dialog members
Dialog was cofounded in 2006 by Peter Thiel and has spent two decades declining to disclose its members. The leaked 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.
The same directory names the founders and directors of large surveillance, data-broker and advertising-data companies. Auren Hoffman, who founded SafeGraph and LiveRamp, appears alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and Senator Ted Cruz. Joe Lonsdale, a Palantir cofounder whose software runs case management for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed with Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes.
Grynkewich on the list
General Alexus Grynkewich appears on the leaked registration records as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. Grynkewich became NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of U.S. European Command in July 2025, placing a current senior military official inside the same roster as private-sector executives and lawmakers.
Raffi Grinberg lists himself as Dialog's executive director on his LinkedIn profile, and he is the author of How to Be a Grown-Up. The leak gives readers a rare look at who has been inside a society that has kept its membership secret for years, and the exposed records now define the group more openly than its founders ever did.
