The Gifted And Talented Education program (GATE) 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 workbook she purportedly used during class, showing she was cracking codes and learning Russian. 

'The stuff I found in there — I'm like, what were you training us for?' she said. 

Some former GATE students argued that the program was tied 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 like crashing waves or wind blowing through the trees.

Many alumni of GATE programs recalled being subjected to the same audio 'tests' at school. 

'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,' said one former GATE student who goes by Rachel on TikTok. 

'They were facilitated by people who did not work at our school,' she added in a recent video. 

Former GATE students have shared the audio that they say they had to listen to during 'testing' sessions.

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

'This is the first step along your path to a gateway,' the man's voice states. 

'The gateway beyond which is discovery, your own discovery of reality, of truth, of who and what you are.'