I was enrolled in ‘gifted’ classes as a child — I now believe it was a CIA training program

Mommy’s little spy?

Adults who were enrolled in the Gifted And Talented Education program (GATE) decades ago as children are now questioning if 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 many of her followers with questions.

In one TikTok clip, Mills flipped through a binder of her classwork and showed off some of the assignments she was given as a child in the 90s.

“The stuff I found 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 demonstrate high cognitive abilities and pass a series of tests are taught separate lessons which do not fall into the standard curriculum.

Many of the worksheets Mills shared dealt with cracking codes, plotting graphs — as well as learning sign language, Morse code and Russian.

Nearly all of the lessons were focused on creative problem-solving. A surprising number mentioned aliens or Russian culture.

This has led some to claim that the public school program was connected to the CIA’s Gateway Program.

The federal program was developed in the 1980s to instruct and train people “in the art of switching perceptual modes, the art of becoming more conscious of one’s particular inner resources, inner abilities and most of all, of one’s inner guidance.”

It was used to explore the limitations of human consciousness using sound, meditation and other techniques.

The sound recordings used typically featured a series of “non-verbal audio patterns” hidden by sounds like crashing waves or wind blowing through the trees — similar to the audio entrance tests former GATE students claim to remember taking.

“Some of them were basic IQ tests, but many of them were of the meditation-type testing, where we had to listen to a woman’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 lessons as many of her viewers claim to have been in similar programs but not remember many details.

Some former members of the programs commenting on the videos expressed suspicions as to why they struggle to maintain 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 decades until just now,” another said.

“Why don’t I remember a single thing except the building and entryway?” someone asked.

While theories continue to be floated and some declassified documents related to the programs have been offered as proof by internet sleuths, there is no evidence to suggest that public school GATE programs were tied to the CIA in any way.