After his death, why did American intelligence agencies take three days off?

The biggest possibility is that someone's joke has turned into a heinous rumor.

Intelligence agencies in various countries operate 24 hours a day, and people do not rest. The nature of work determines that there is only shift rest and no national holiday.

The CIA is an open intelligence organization, whose main job is to collect and analyze all kinds of information about countries and regions that pose a threat to the national interests of the United States, including military and economic information, and of course, all kinds of information about potential competitors. The Snowden case some time ago has confirmed that the European allies of the United States are also on the CIA's eavesdropping monitoring list.

In fact, intelligence agencies are not as mysterious and scary as movies and novels.

Sending fighters directly, as described in the James Bond movie, is only a small part of the work of intelligence agencies.

All the work of intelligence agencies in various countries is legal and illegal, in other words, it can be made public or not.

So the CIA spokesperson had a very famous saying at the press conference:

"We neither admit nor deny"

This sentence is the best interpretation of the daily work of all intelligence agencies, including the CIA.

In fact, all important overseas intelligence personnel have open diplomatic status, such as the second secretary of the embassy. It is well known that these people enjoy the protection of diplomatic immunity and are not subject to the laws of the host country, which has become a common practice in all countries.

However, when the relationship between the two countries is tense, these people will be expelled by the other side. The public statement is that "the above-mentioned personnel engaged in work inconsistent with their diplomatic status, so our government ordered them to leave the country within a certain period of time."

Generally speaking, intelligence work is like this. Collecting all kinds of information through various open or closed channels, and then sorting out and analyzing useful information is the most part of daily life.