Question

This summary describes the FBI's Racial Matters program.

Racial Matters was a secret program in which J. Edgar Hoover's FBI
used covert
surveillance and counterintelligence programs to follow, wiretap, and
investigate
African American leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. during the
1960s.
Why did J. Edgar Hoover use the program described in the summary?
He considered civil rights leaders to be dangerous intellectuals who held too
much influence over political machines.
He suspected that civil rights leaders had communist sympathies, but he
lacked evidence to charge them with a crime.
He suspected that civil rights leaders were adversaries of his political party,
and he hoped to intimidate them.
He considered civil rights leaders to be allies in the war against drugs and
hoped to recruit them to be agents.

Answer 1

He suspected that civil rights leaders had communist sympathies, but he lacked evidence to charge them with a crime.

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