Has the MAJESTIC JEHOVAH reverse engineering “Bigot List” just been declassified?
Nov 25, 2025
An odd, single page document in the 2025 JFK Assassination Files release may be the key to President Kennedy's murder.
The following document was released in April 2025 as part of the JFK Assassination files. It contains the names of 85 individuals, from across a broad range of US government departments and private industries.
Unusually, it was released as a single-page document – unlike the thousands of other JFK assassination documents released since 2017, which normally have a cover page known as the JFK Assassination System Identification Form.
This cover page includes such data as:
· the date of declassification
· the Agency from which the file originated from
· the record number
· the record series
· document information
This document had none of the above:
The original can be found at this URL:
https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2025/0318/104-10111-10104.pdf
At first glance, this list looks unremarkable. However, the Primary Key here is the entry for David Lamar Christ, an Applied Physicist who was recruited in 1950 as the CIA’s first scientist.
Helpfully, the Assassination Records Review Board underlined Christ’s name, as he was obviously a major person of interest in their investigation of President Kennedy’s murder:
The 24th of November, 1950, was the date that Dave Christ received his Central Intelligence Agency Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance.
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=102749#relPageId=339
The problem is – half of those people on that list aren’t CIA employees.
This is a “Bigot List” of a program operated by the CIA that utilises specialist personnel from a wide range of the Armed Services and private industry scientists.
In other words, a reverse engineering program.
EDIT 27/11/2025 - The sharp eyes of fellow researcher Ryan Purkey pointed out a significant twist to this emerging story.
This document had also previously been released in 2018 and 2023, with a gradual decline in the number of redactions.
For example, the 2023 release only had two redactions remaining - those of Joseph W. Reidy and CDR Horace F. Amine, USNR.
Looking at these two individuals, we find that the dates on this list are NOT the dates they received their base CIA TS/SCI.
These dates, therefore, refer to something else. I posit here that it is a special, highly sensitive compartment for a reverse engineering program.
For example, looking at Joseph W. Reidy, we find the following entry in DCI Gen. Walter Bedell Smith’s log for September 4, 1951:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/1951-09-01.pdf Page 3
For Reidy to be on a TDY in Frankfurt in 1951, he would have required a TS/SCI clearance to have been granted prior to his deployment.
Once he returned to the U.S. and fully recovered, he received a briefing into this compartment on June 12, 1952, that was a Bigot Assignment. Reidy was also an Air Force Reserve 1LT.
Likewise, in 1950, CDR Horace F. Amrine was heavily involved in the creation of the Civilian Air Transport front company, which later became known as Air America.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2011.pdf Page 16
The cover of working for the State Department is/was very common for CIA officers working overseas, and Amrine’s conversations took place in March of 1950.
Once again, Amrine would have already required a TS/SCI clearance to engage in these sensitive discussions. Amrine was briefed into this Bigot Assignment compartment on June 2, 1952, a few days before Joe Reidy.
Why were their names the only ones redacted in 2023? Probably because it is relatively easy to see that they were already TS/SCI cleared before the dates on the list, thereby confirming this was a special compartment.
Something the CIA did not want the world to know.
Dave Christ, however, was specifically recruited for this compartment - in fact, he was the CIA’s first scientific recruit. That is why his TS/SCI grant date is the same as the date on this list.
The meaning of a “Bigot List”
To explain the definition of a Bigot List, here is Admiral Thomas Wilson in an excerpt from the Wilson-Davis Memo.
He is describing to Dr. Eric W. Davis what happened when he discovered the Legacy reverse engineering program as Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency:
The MAJESTIC JEHOVAH bigot list is littered with names not related to the CIA, yet they all have a “Need to Know” and have a CIA TS/SCI equivalent clearance.
I will name each individual and provide a URL so you can see for yourself that this project extended across the entire U.S. Military Industrial Complex.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-179921159
https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1994929330145710354