Technofascist, AI-loving, German-American billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel’s secret meeting near Dublin this August was a four-day retreat for over 220 of the world’s most powerful elites, including NATO’s top commander, politicians and their advisors (read cronies), tech moguls, media barons and others.
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WIRED reported that a directory for the secretive society, known as Dialog, was revealed by Swiss hacktivist Maia Arson Crimew, who received it via an anonymous tip and independently verified its contents.
WIRED also verified the registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat with a separate source.
The retreat is scheduled for August 12–16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland. According to the leaked records, of the 222 people signed up for the 2026 retreat, 87 are marked as first-time attendees. Others list histories stretching back more than a decade, and a handful to the society’s founding 20 years ago, WIRED said.
Axios reported last year that the organization bought real estate outside Washington, D.C. to develop a headquarters.
Palantir — Ruling class representatives in attendance
The list includes elites from different spheres. European Powell described the gathering as the infrastructure of a parallel governance system, operating by design without a paper trail, convening the world’s most powerful figures in rooms where the public is structurally barred from being present.
The list includes:
Tech lords — Elon Musk, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Anthropic global affairs chief Michael Sellitto, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Xbox president Sarah Bond, Google DeepMind’s Tom Lue, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale,
Media barons — LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson, podcaster Sam Harris, journalist Ezra Klein, songwriter Benj Pasek, Washington Post correspondent Souad Mekhennet, and Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League
Finance lords — Co-founder of KKR, Henry Kravis, Fortress Investment Group principal Pete Briger, Chairman of Starwood Capital Group Barry Sternlicht
Politicians, civil servants and advisors — NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich, former US Army general Stanley McChrystal, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, the Saudi ambassador to the US Reema Al-Saud, US senators Cory Booker and Ted Cruz, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, German MP Jens Spahn, British MP Tom Tugendhat, former Starmer adviser Matt Clifford, Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee’s Randy Kroszner and Trump advisor Jared Kushner
EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas, whose name appeared on the attendees list, will not be attending, according to EUobserver, but refused to comment on whether she was invited.
Hollywood — Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sophia Bush, Teresa Hsiao
The Canary’s Ani has all the tea on the secret society meeting here:
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World War 3
WIRED reported that there were off-the-record sessions during the secret meeting, including: “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” “Navigating WWIII,” “Build-a-Cult,” “Battlefield Technologies,” “How’s Your Sex Life?”
Thiel’s Palantir, a military contractor, is salivating at the thought of blood and war as it has been good for its business.
As the Register reported on 5 May:
The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.
Palantir’s manifesto, which it released in April, glorified past German and Japanese fascism, glorified Apartheid-loving Musk, and glorified Western ‘culture’.
As The Tech Buzz reported, Palantir has spent nearly two decades refining software that handles classified data and integrates disparate intelligence sources. Now it is layering AI capabilities on top of that foundation, creating tools that can identify patterns, predict threats, and recommend actions faster than human analysts alone.
Drone Wars’ recent report on Palantir painted a chilling picture of a rapidly emerging shift away from even basic accountability in warfare, driven by Palantir. It said that Palantir’s “ascendance” showed that data, algorithms, and software were becoming the core foundation of contemporary military and social power.
For Thiel and his fellow Dialog members, war is a business opportunity to be optimised, discussed in off-the-record sessions alongside sex, cult-building, and the future of AI, far from public scrutiny.
By The Canary
