What We Know About Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Secret ‘Dialog’ Society

Forbes: “A leak of private information purportedly related to an ultra-secret society called “Dialog” founded by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel has revealed the inner workings of an elite group to which hundreds of global leaders, business executives and billionaires belong.

  • The documents, examined and revealed by Wired this week, show Thiel and investor Auren Hoffman co-founded Dialog in 2006 as a private, invitation-only and “bipartisan” network of influential people in technology, politics, academia, finance, government and beyond.
  • Dialog describes itself as a place for off-the-record relationships among leaders from different fields and ideological backgrounds, and the group hosts at least one in-person retreat per year at lavish locations like the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona, the Ritz-Carlton in Santa Barbara, California and the San Clemente Palace in Venice.
  • The retreats include moderated sessions for attendees (who are promised nothing they say will leave the room) with names like “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” “Navigating WWIII,” and “How’s Your Sex Life?”
  • The leak, first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, revealed registration records were hidden within the publicly-available code of the group’s poorly-secured website—dialog.org—and for every person, Dialog lists a membership status, each retreat they’ve attended, a biography, political affiliation, a home city and a private access token, which functions as login credentials.
  • Dialog has been described as Bilderberg (an off-the-record gathering of political and business elite) meets Silicon Valley salon…”

See also The Hollywood Reporter – Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society. Ranks of his group, Dialog, appear to include several prominent figures in media and entertainment who’ are put in the same room as C-suite execs and political titans during closed-door annual retreats. The group is planning an expansion.

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