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J. Edgar Hoover labeled Martin Luther King as a communist because he believed that King's civil rights activism and association with individuals who were members of the Communist Party indicated that King was sympathetic to communist ideologies. Hoover saw King as a threat to national security and sought to discredit him through this accusation.

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