The Kennedys were worried that the CPUSA was going to subvert King's movement, something that likely worried Johnson later when King spoke against the Vietnam war.LOL, the CPUSA of that era couldn't take a clinton without Hoover knowing how many kernels of corn were included. Their de facto treasurer (and conduit from the Soviets), Morris Childs, wasn't an FBI informant, he was an FBI mole. President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom for his work.
The point the media is missing is the possibility that Watergate was nothing more than J. Edgar Hoover's posthumous revenge.
-Eric
I have Operation Solo, John Barron's book on Morris Childs. Morris Childs gave the US invaluable information from his friends inside the Kremlin, and he carried funds to the CPUSA, but the book doesn't support the idea that "the CPUSA couldn't take a clinton" without Morris Childs knowing about it. That's a far more detailed and comprehensive knowledge than he ever claimed to have had.
Silent Coup makes the best case for what Watergate was about. It certainly convinced Gordon Liddy. It was a Dean operation designed to spy on the prostitution ring that his girlfriend/wife had been a part of, a ring being run from a desk at DNC headquarters in the Watergate.