C.I.A. Mole, Now Out of Prison, Helped U.S. Identify Cuban Spies

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20 points·GabrielF00··8 comments

Odd title editorializing. I would think a "Master Spy" wouldn't get caught relatively early on in his intelligence career.

The submitter didn't break the rules; this is just the NYT up to its usual title-changing tricks. We've updated the title here accordingly.

Yeah, the title I submitted is the one currently used on the NYT home page: "The Master Spy Who Betrayed Cuba’s Codes, and Paid for It", not the one currently used in the article: "C.I.A. Mole, Now Out of Prison, Helped U.S. Identify Cuban Spies"

Sorry for the accusation. I did not realize the headline would change like that. That's my fault.

why would they do that ? A/B testing? to make people click 2 times on the same article?

Huffpo used to pull that trick on its homepage,once with an acceptable title/then with a bait if you visited the article before,I hate these silly techniques.But I guess that's how they make money.

The latest is one of the worst offender when It comes to baiting.It's just annoying feeling you're being taken for an idiot.

As a compulsive rewriter whose middle name should probably be Stop-Me-Before-I-Edit-Again, it never occurred to me that they didn't just get their titles wrong a lot.

Search engine optimization?

Thanks for filling me in. I meant no disrespect to the OP, though I did think it was an editorialization. That's my fault.

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