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.
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.
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.
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