The FBI spied on MLK because he threatened the politicians demanding change of racial laws faster than they wanted to go.
MLK one of many people over the years inlcuding Trump that the FBI has been used on by the political keaders of our country.
His sexual conduct was always there now when the government and media must suppress outsiders they consider “extreme” how convenient to admit the sexual record exists.
The two reasons that brothers JFK and RFK authorized spying on MLK were King’s two close advisors Hunter Pitts Odell and Stanley Levison.
Both men were secret members of the CPUSA during the worst of the Cold War. Loyalty to Stalin was okay with them.
King was shown the evidence against those two and warned that he needed to get rid of them. King didn’t care. He knew what they were. So the spying continued. O’Dell and Levison were considered a real threat who would try manipulate King to do the Soviet Unions bidding. Bill Moyers who many may remember was running around DC playing tapes of King’s motel adventures to reporters