Mommy’s little spy?
Adults who were enrolled within the Gifted And Talented Education program (GATE) many years ago as children at the moment are questioning in the event that they were unknowingly being covertly trained by the CIA.
Anna Mills, known online as @annamillsxo23, helped renew interest in a previously-floated conspiracy theory by posting several videos to social media sharing the worksheets and assignments she was given when she was young — leaving a lot of her followers with questions.
In a single TikTok clip, Mills flipped through a binder of her classwork and showed off among the assignments she was given as a toddler within the 90s.
“The stuff I discovered in there — I’m like, what were you training us for?” Mills questioned in a TikTok video.
Then, as now, students across the country who display high cognitive abilities and pass a series of tests are taught separate lessons which don’t fall into the usual curriculum.
Lots of the worksheets Mills shared handled cracking codes, plotting graphs — in addition to learning sign language, Morse code and Russian.
Nearly the entire lessons were focused on creative problem-solving. A surprising number mentioned aliens or Russian culture.
This has led some to assert that the general public school program was connected to the CIA’s Gateway Program.
The federal program was developed within the Nineteen Eighties to instruct and train people “within the art of switching perceptual modes, the art of becoming more conscious of 1’s particular inner resources, inner abilities and most of all, of 1’s inner guidance.”
It was used to explore the restrictions of human consciousness using sound, meditation and other techniques.
The sound recordings used typically featured a series of “non-verbal audio patterns” hidden by appears like crashing waves or wind blowing through the trees — much like the audio entrance tests former GATE students claim to recollect taking.
“A few of them were basic IQ tests, but a lot of them were of the meditation-type testing, where we needed to take heed to a lady’s voice on an audio tape with big earphones,” TikTokker Rachel, known online as @rachelthedreamer, said in her video.
Mills has continued to post videos sharing what she remembers from the teachings as a lot of her viewers claim to have been in similar programs but not remember many details.
TikTok / @annamillsxo23
Some former members of the programs commenting on the videos expressed suspicions as to why they struggle to take care of memories from these classes – with others suggesting their minds were altered.
“Why do most of us only ‘faintly’ remember any of it,” someone questioned.
“Completely blocked that out for many years until just now,” one other said.
“Why don’t I remember a single thing except the constructing and entryway?” someone asked.
While theories proceed to be floated and a few declassified documents related to the programs have been offered as proof by web sleuths, there isn’t a evidence to suggest that public school GATE programs were tied to the CIA in any way.
