The Kennedy Administration authorized the surveillance in the first place and got reports of what it yielded.
Jackie Kennedy was told about the contents of the bugged conversations because she repeated stories about MLK arranging orgies before the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.
Jackie told historian Arthur Schlesinger in his taped interview with her in January 1964 that King was in her words “a phony.”
Hoover called him “The biggest liar in the country”.
He also had strong communist ties including attending a communist training school in Tennessee.