{"id":341022,"date":"2026-06-18T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341022\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:18:23","slug":"new-report-outs-ted-cruz-as-member-of-peter-thiel-led-secret-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/341022\/","title":{"rendered":"New report outs Ted Cruz as member of Peter Thiel-led secret society"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at a 2021 event in Phoenix, Arizona. Credit: Wikipedia Commons \/ Gage Skidmore<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was revealed in a leak to be a member of Dialog, a secret society led by Peter Thiel, the controversial founder of defense-tech firm Palantir, tech-industry magazine Wired reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dialog is a private, invitation-only organization the billionaire tech investor co-founded in 2006. The group\u2019s retreats bring together U.S. politicians, foreign government officials and Silicon Valley executives.<\/p>\n

Thiel, raised in apartheid-era South Africa, was one of the first Silicon Valley giants to support Donald Trump and has courted controversy by writing that freedom and democracy aren\u2019t \u201ccompatible\u201d and that regulating Big Tech is the work of the \u201canti-Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

The directory revealed to Wired in the data leak includes Trump administration officials and two U.S. senators, including Cruz. The magazine didn\u2019t name the second senator. However, a hacker behind the leak revealed the larger list, which included New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a prominent democrat who chairs the Strategic Communications Committee.<\/p>\n

Cruz is listed alongside executives of industries he is charged with regulating as chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.<\/p>\n

Other notable figures revealed in the leak include Hallie Hoffman, acting chief of staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League; Peter Goettler, president of the Cato Institute; Ryan Stowers, executive director of the Charles Koch Foundation; and Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate economist at the free market-focused University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

The list also includes Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department creates rules around financial data privacy. Palantir\u00a0cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software is integrated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Pentagon and the intelligence community, is also listed in the society along with Army secretary Dan Driscoll.<\/p>\n

Additionally, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes \u2014 the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee \u2014 appears on the list. The House Intelligence Committee oversees agencies with whom Palantir contracts.<\/p>\n

Julian Castro, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and San Antonio native, also appears on the list.<\/p>\n

Google executives, hedge-fund and private equity-billionaires, best-selling authors, TV actors, religious leaders and one journalist \u2014 a national security correspondent for the Washington Post \u2014\u00a0are also included in the directory, according to Wired. Controversial music exec Scooter Braun, who is dating Sydney Sweeney, is also on the list, as is 500 Days of Summer actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.<\/p>\n

Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew (the lower-case letters are the part of the person\u2019s moniker) first revealed the secret society\u2019s directory after receiving an anonymous tip, WIRED reports. The hacktivist is also responsible for uncovering the U.S. government\u2019s No-Fly List<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dialog directory lists 222 attendees of its upcoming retreat, scheduled for August 12-16 in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n

The data revealed in the leak includes a program of off-the-record sessions on topics ranging from \u201cNavigating WWIII\u201d \u201cto \u201cHow\u2019s Your Sex Life?\u201d Wired reports. Other topics will include \u201cMoney (Does?) Buy Happiness,\u201d \u201cBring Back Nuclear,\u201d \u201cBattlefield Technologies\u201d\u00a0and another on how to build a cult.<\/p>\n

None of the attendees used their government emails, meaning communications within the society can\u2019t be obtained via public records requests, according to Wired.<\/p>\n

Retreat registrations included in the data leak also reportedly asked if registrants were \u201clooking for love\u201d and revealed a dating site<\/a> as a component of the secret society.<\/p>\n

The group, which holds at least one retreat annually, has been likened to a tech industry version of Bilderberg, another off-the-record gathering that brings together political elites and business tycoons.<\/p>\n

Past Dialog retreats have been held at the Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain in Arizona and the San Clemente Palace in Venice, Italy,\u00a0according to Axios<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Little is known of the discreet organization, and glimpses of its inner workings are rare. However, retreat registration fees have run upwards of $16,000, according to an invitation leaked on a statistician\u2019s blog<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n

The 2014 retreat also surfaced in the public eye this year when an\u00a0invitation forwarded to the financier Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>\u00a0appeared in the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s release of the Epstein files.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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