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I really hope they aren't gonna do the same surgery on my right eye tomorrow, my left eye still hasn't recovered that much, so if they did that, I would be nearly blind for at least a short while.
The "Bigot" was an odd weapon developed by the OSS during WW2, as a means of converting a standard M1911A1 pistol into a quiet (enough) dartgun. It required fitting a sleeve into the bore of the pistol (and if memory serves it was machined to engage into the rifling grooves of the pistol, requiring some strength and effort to install and to remove), and a dart was loaded into the sleeve.
The dart was powered by a blank cartridge (.25 Auto, I think), and it would telescope out in flight, the fins shown at the muzzle of the pistol being dragged to the rear of it to provide some means of stabilization.
Though I imagine this may have not been that loud, I also wonder exactly what they attempted to achieve with this, precision must have been poor, the dart can't have had very good terminal effect compared to just regular 230gr FMJ (which is subsonic, pairing well with typical suppressors, also retaining the faster loading and shooting of the normal pistol, and the better precision to boot).
I have seen some mockup projectiles which look like they were intended to be explosives (like tiny rifle grenades), but I don't see why these would be all that desirable either. I guess it's one of those strange things which they just tried to see what would happen. The name is unusual too, but may have just been a random codeword drawn from a hat.
