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I was in gifted classes as a kid in the 90s… here’s why I think it was a secret CIA program

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A woman who claimed to be part of the program in the 1990s shared a workbook used during class, showing that she was breaking codes and learning Russia. 'The things I found there. I wonder, what were they training us for?' she said

Americans who were part of “gifted and talented” educational 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 advanced curriculum and activities to foster 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 with above-average intelligence.

One woman, who claimed to be part of the program in the 1990s, shared a notebook she allegedly used during class, showing that she was breaking codes and learning Russian.

‘The things I found there… I wonder, what were they training us for?’ she said.

Some GATE alumni argued that the program was linked to the CIA’s Gateway Program that 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 featured a series of “non-verbal 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 used during class, showing that she was breaking codes and learning Russia. ‘The things I found there… I wonder, what were they training us for?’ she said

“Some of them were basic 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 with big headphones,” said a former GATE student who goes by the name Rachel on TikTok. .

“They were provided by people who did not work at our school,” he added in a recent video.

Former GATE students have shared the audio they say they had to listen to during the ‘test’ sessions.

The clip features a series of high-pitched, electronic-sounding noises followed by a man’s monotone voice.

“This is the first step on the path to a front door,” the man’s voice states.

“The door beyond which is discovery, your own discovery of reality, of truth, of who and what you are.”

The audio then guides the listener through a meditation, asking them to adopt 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 “exploring psychic phenomena in children.”

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A woman who goes by the name Anna Mills shared some of her school’s GATE program worksheets that included various code-breaking and message-decoding tasks.

The CIA's Gateway Program, developed and launched by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences in the early 1980s, used sound, meditation, and other techniques to explore the limitations of human consciousness.

The CIA’s Gateway Program, developed and launched by the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences in the early 1980s, used sound, meditation and other techniques to explore the limitations of human consciousness.

While there is no evidence that the CIA used a secret curriculum to discover abilities in American children, the agency was monitoring “psychic children in China.”

In a document from January 1985the CIA analyzed how the nation’s boys and girls were “capable of extraordinary physical feats, including the ability to escape unscathed when struck in the chest with the blade of a sword.”

A young man mentioned in the report “peeped” inside a pregnant woman’s uterus, 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 American schools, but GATE alumni shared some of the worksheets, activities and assignments they completed, leaving them baffled.

“They had us do worksheets in Morse code,” Anna Mills shared on recent tiktok video.

He said many of the tasks revolved around understanding and using code.

One was even titled ‘Codes to Crack’.

Another worksheet was titled “Strange Message,” which prompted students to “use the following code (the venera alphabet) to decipher the message.”

He also said that some of the codes were also just symbols.

On the page, it appears that the teacher wrote “tie for 1st,” suggesting that the students were also timed during the activity.

In addition to learning to use Morse and other forms of code, Mills and the other children in his GATE program received instruction in Russian.

‘I know each of the programs were different, so different decades, different states had different programs. But for us, Russian was a big part,” he said in the follow-up video.

Mills went on to explain an activity she and her classmates did called the “tile wall.”

The instructions included a list of words that students could include in their mosaic, which were “peace, America, love, freedom, Russia, flag, hope and happiness.”

Beyond these unverified anecdotal reports, there is no evidence to suggest that Gifted and Talented Education programs are in any way linked to the CIA.

But claims of “eerie similarities” between these childhood memories, the classified Gateway Program and other CIA operations have swept social media, prompting many to look back on their school experiences and wonder what was going on.

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