“He like most bureaucrats did the bidding of his masters.”
Yes, but he also controlled his masters through the illegal knowledge he gained using the FBI. No one can have such a long career without leverage and it was widely known he used that leverage. That was illegal, unconstitutional, and he should have been in prison many times for it. He illegally spied on US citizens and used the power of the federal government to do it.
To me, that was communism in that he used the power of the State to control the people and their elected representatives. It was also communism in that he believed the federal government should wield power over the people and the States and he exercised that idea throughout his career. I have not doubt that should the US government have turned real commie and controlled all commerce he would have obliged to participate as that level of power would have had him drunk on it.
My focus is on the FBI spying of MLK right now. It was fully authorized by the administration of JFK in 1963, a very convenient time politically (1964 re-election).
The Kennedy’s didn’t like King, we now know that because Jackie Kennedy referred to him as a “despicable man” in a recording made shortly after the assassination.
I think Hoover was helping to make his bosses happy with his spying in this case and that the Kennedy’s wanted it done.