Hoover called him “The biggest liar in the country”.
He also had strong communist ties including attending a communist training school in Tennessee.
MLK had a lot of leftists around him.
One of them was Bayard Rustin, who has been arrested for cruising a men’s room.
Evan Thomas wrote a book about Robert Kennedy in which he quoted RFK dissing Rustin as a “pink fairy”.
The Kennedy’s were in on this surveillance I think for a number of reasons including intelligence on future civil rights protests that could disrupt the 1964 election campaign and the Kennedy’s were anti-communists and concerned about the left-wingers around King.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/king_jr-communist.htm
This photo taken Sept. 2, 1957 of King attending the Highlander Folk School which the Communist Party operated at Monteagle, Tennessee. Identified in the picture is No. 1 King, No. 2, Abner Berry, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and writer for the "Daily Worker," No. 3, Aubrey Williams, Communist Party agent and president of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) a red front organizing blacks in southern states. No. 4, Miles Horton, head of the Highlander Folk School King was listed on the schools' letterhead as a "sponsor." The Highlander school was financed by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. At one time Rosenwald headed Sears Roebuck Co. He spent $22 million financing civil rights groups. His daughter Edith Stern continued to give money to the SCEF and Highlander Folk School after her father's death. Her husband, Alfred stern of New Orleans, fled to Russia just before he was to be arrested on spy charges.