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What is the gate program?
The CIA's classified consciousness research and public school gifted-screening programs share a timeline, methodology, and institutional genealogy that is too precise to dismiss as coincidence. Declassified MKUltra subproject records document covert testing of children for psi potential. The question researchers are now asking is not whether the government ran psychic research on children — that is confirmed — but whether GATE served as a civilian-side talent pipeline for that apparatus.
Evidence
- Three distinct but converging programs carry the 'Gate' label, and the convergence is the story.
- First: the educational GATE program, which expanded nationally through the 1970s–80s, used IQ screening, pattern-recognition and anomalous-cognition batteries that critics note closely parallel the assessment protocols used in government psi research.
- Second: the CIA's Gateway Process, documented in the declassified 1983 Monroe Institute analysis (Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, authored by Army Lt. Col. Wayne McDonnell) which describes Hemi-Sync binaural entrainment as a technology for inducing out-of-body states and accessing non-local consciousness.
- Third: MKUltra Subproject 136 and related children's psi testing, documented in Church Committee records and FOIA releases, confirmed that the agency ran ESP battery tests on minors through institutional proxies.
- A 2026 documentary, Psychic Agent: The GATE Program, directed by Ryder Lee, traces the SRI remote-viewing lineage directly into the question of whether public-school gifted screening served as a feeder identification mechanism — the first film to place all three threads in a single investigative frame.