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Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
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A website leak has exposed participants in the secretive, Peter Thiel-founded Dialog retreats which includes top politicians from across the American divide, officials from foreign countries, other titans of the tech industry world and prominent media figures.
Key facts
- Names from beyond the US include the Saudi royal and former intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal; former Keir Starmer adviser Matt Clifford and the UK Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat; and Sheikh Nawaf
- Matt Clifford, who until recently was the UK prime minister’s adviser on AI and now chairs the government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), is a member, as is the British Conservative
- The annual Dialog retreats, which have been compared to other quasi-secret elite conferences like the Bilderberg Group and Bohemian Grove since they began in 2006, have had some participants revealed
- Emails released by the House oversight committee show that Dialog’s other founder, tech entrepreneur Auren Hoffman, invited deceased financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the 2014 conference
Summary
The annual Dialog retreats, which have been compared to other quasi-secret elite conferences like the Bilderberg Group and Bohemian Grove since they began in 2006, have had some participants revealed in previous media reports. The list indicates an organization capable of mustering a unique mix of government, corporate and cultural power, though many names on the list likely attended Dialog events before Thiel’s association with the political right and the Trump era. The list was exposed, apparently accidentally, in the Dialog website’s source code, and was visible in an Internet Archive snapshot of the site archived on 15 June. The leak was snapshotted on the Internet Archive on Monday, where the Guardian could independently verify the information.