Americans who were part of “gifted and talented” education programs in the 1980s and 1990s believe they were part of a secret government intelligence program.
The Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) program provides students with an advanced curriculum and activities to promote creativity and critical thinking skills.
But many former students believe they were actually part of a secret CIA initiative to test the supernatural abilities of children of above-average intelligence.
A woman, who claimed to be part of the program in the 1990s, shared a workbook she reportedly used in class, which showed her cracking codes and learning Russian.
“The things I found in there, I’m like, what did you train us for?” she said.
Some former GATE students argued that the program was related to the CIA’s Gateway program, which was developed in the 1980s to explore the limitations of human consciousness using sound, meditation and other techniques.
A document released by the CIA explains that these recordings typically contain a series of “nonverbal audio patterns” masked by sounds such as crashing waves or wind blowing through trees.
Many alumni of GATE programs recalled being subjected to the same audio tests in school.
A woman who claimed to be part of the program in the 1990s shared a workbook she used in class that showed her cracking codes and learning Russia. “The things I found in there, I’m like, what did you train us for?” she said
“Some of them were simple IQ tests, but a lot of them were meditation-type tests where we had to listen to a woman’s voice on an audio tape through big earphones,” said a former GATE student who goes by the name Rachel on TikTok. .
“They were facilitated by people who did not work at our school,” she added recent video.
Former GATE students have shared the audio they say they had to listen to during ‘test’ sessions.
The clip features a series of high-pitched, electronic-sounding sounds, followed by the monotone voice of a man.
“This is the first step towards a gate,” says the man’s voice.
‘The gate behind which lies discovery, your own discovery of reality, of the truth, of who and what you are.’
The audio then guides the listener through a meditation, asking them to take a “relaxed position” and listen to the sound of ocean waves.
This audio was developed by the Monroe Institute for the CIA’s Gateway Program. Those who claim it was used on them in schools believe the agency was “investigating psychological phenomena in children.”
A woman named Anna Mills shared some worksheets from her school’s GATE program, which included various assignments on breaking codes and deciphering messages
The CIA’s Gateway Program, developed and launched in the early 1980s by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences, used sound, meditation, and other techniques to explore the limitations of human consciousness.
Although there is no evidence that the CIA used a secret curriculum to reveal abilities in American children, the agency did monitor “paranormal children in China.”
In a document dated January 1985the CIA discussed how the nation’s young boys and girls were “capable of extraordinary physical feats, including the ability to emerge unscathed when struck in the chest with the blade of a sword.”
A young boy mentioned in the report ‘peered into the womb of a pregnant woman, only to announce that the fetus now had a head.’ And the diagnosis turned out to be correct.
There are no reports linking the CIA to US schools, but GATE alumni shared some of the worksheets, activities and assignments they completed, leaving them bewildered.
“They had us do worksheets in Morse code,” Anna Mills said recent TikTok video.
She said many of the assignments revolved around understanding and using codes.
One of them was even titled ‘Codes to Crack’.
Another worksheet was titled “Strange Message,” which prompted students to “use the following code (respecting the alphabet) to decipher the message.”
She also said that some of the coding was just symbols.
On the page, it appears that the teacher wrote “tie for first place,” which suggests that the students also measured time during the activity.
In addition to learning to use Morse and other forms of code, Mills and the other children in her GATE program received instruction in Russian.
“I know each of the programs was different, so different decades, different states had different programs. But for us, Russian played a big role,” she said in the follow-up video.
Mills then explained an activity she and her classmates did called a “tile wall.”
The instructions included a list of words for students to write on their tile, namely “peace, America, love, freedom, Russia, flag, hope, and happiness.”
Other than these unverified anecdotal reports, there is no evidence to suggest that gifted education programs are in any way connected to the CIA.
But claims of “uncanny similarities” between these childhood memories, the secret Gateway Program and other CIA operations have flooded social media, causing many to recall their school experiences and wonder what was going on.