Imagine amassing more wealth and power than even kings of old would know what to do with, waiting for your invitation to the Illuminati, and learning that it’s never coming because it doesn’t exist? Something along those lines appears to be what happened to PayPal founder Peter Thiel, who got to the top of the totem pole only to find there was no secret clubhouse. He was not the only person who seemed to lament this fact. In a 2016 email sent to Jeffrey Epstein, former MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito told the convicted child sex offender, “peter thiel LOVED the secret socieity [sic) idea. he has done alot of work on the concept”—though, as Ito noted at the time, “all failed so far.” Whether the idea under discussion in Ito’s email ever got off the ground is unknown, but it does seem that Thiel’s kind of been running his own secret society. On Tuesday, Wired reported on a trove of records related to Dialog, an invitation-only club founded by Thiel, first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. The members of the group have never been revealed, but documents leaked online appear to give a list of figures—notable names in politics, finance, tech, and other major industries—who have participated in the group’s clandestine meetings and, even more damning, willingly spent time with Peter Thiel.