A secret society of the world’s most high profile elites are expected to find a new place to host their annual top secret meeting where they were due to form a plan to prepare for World War Three.
The private, invite-only network Dialog was due to host it’s 2026 meeting this August in just a week but had to cancel it, after the venue and dates were exposed by hacktivists. The secret society, co-founded by spyware billionaire Peter Thiel, are now expected to put in place plans for a meeting in a new location where one item on the agenda makes for terrifying reading.
The organisation holds off-the-record summits for powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, military, celebrity and tech – and no attendee list has ever been made public.
WW3 was on the agenda(Image: DARYNA NAUMOVA/EPA/Shutterstock)
The world’s most powerful all get together in a room for the off-the-record chats where they set in motion plans for the world for the coming months.
Dialog has spent two decades refusing to disclose the identities of its members and has a private website, but just weeks before the 200-strong group were due to meet, they were attacked by cyber experts.
From August 12–16, 2026, more than 200 politicians, military leaders, technology executives, and financiers expected to attend the invitation-only summit at the Powerscourt Hotel near Dublin, but that came to an abrupt halt thanks to hackers.
According to reports based on leaked materials, the agenda included sessions into how the world can navigate World War 3.
Other sessions had titles such as “How’s Your Sex Life?”, “How to Build a Cult,” and “Bring Back Nuclear.”
Peter Thiel is a co-founder of the group(Image: Getty Images)
The registration records list was reported to have included some of the most powerful humans in the world, including General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025.
His name was recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021.
Other names included sitting Trump administration officials, US senators, including senior US and NATO military officials, Senator Ted Cruz, Elon Musk, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, and other influential figures from the technology and finance sectors.
Other names from the world of entertainment include Hollywood actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin.
The event was due to take place in Dublin(Image: Powerscourt Hotel)
British names included Matt Clifford, former Downing Street AI advisor and Tom Tugendhat, the Tory MP and former security minister.
According to leaked information, Dialog staff and their artificial intelligence tools create dossiers on every member and potential member, and assign them a grade reflecting their desirability to Dialog – a C is given to the most famous and influential, A is assigned to established members who are less notable, while most people receive a B.
Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, who previously leaked the US government’s no-fly list and hacked surveillance-camera company Verkada, was behind the leak, WIRED reported.
The documents also offered an insight into how the group operates. Sessions are designed to be off-the-record, with participants encouraged to speak freely without attribution.
Insiders say they now believe a new top secret venue will be hunted for at short notice.
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