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> She was being monitored by the CIA, who believed she was a spy.

MLK Jr. was being monitored by the FBI and CIA, who believed he was a Communist.

That has nothing to do with the fact that she was being monitored by the CIA, who believed she was a spy. Stop it with the red herring bit.
That appears to be an appeal to authority instead of establishing any facts, and the argument in the authority is not one rather than a red herring. Unless what matters isn’t whether she was actually a spy, only what CIA thought of her.
But... he was a socialist.