Doing further digging on the information provided by Ladislaus, I'm not sure it helps that much more. The story about Paul Scortesco, who had inside knowledge of the conclave that he published in the early 1980s and was founded burned to death shortly afterwards, seems alarming at first, but it breaks down pretty quickly.
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First of all, this is the only source I could find for the rumor of Cardinal Siri's election, and there are only three websites that have this information on the internet at all, and they mostly copy from each other. None of them provided any footnotes or links to outside sources in confirmation of any of this information. We're already off to a terrible start, but let's see what we have ...
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Scortesco claims that the French Cardinals left the conclave to confer with the outside, the freemasons. This was the explosive revelation that supposedly got him murdered (more on that later). It turns out, Cardinal Siri denies Scortesco's claims. From one of the three websites:
According to Scortesco, during that conclave Cardinal Tisserant left to meet with representatives of B’nai B’rith, and told them Siri had been elected! They in turn said that for the new pope to continue as such would immediately precipitate another round of persecutions against the Church. [...] During the 1985 interview at the Cardinal’s palace in Genoa, when Remy and his two companions, Francois Dallais and Monsieur de la Franquerie, asked Siri himself about the above incident, his response was precise and firm. “No,” he said, “no one left the Conclave.”.
Um, okay, so the only person who would know about this actually denies it. Let's keep going with the story, as things are just going to keep getting worse:
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Asked whether he had been elected pope, however, the Cardinal reacted quite differently… After a long silence, he “raised his eyes to heaven” as though in pain and suffering. Joining his hands, he said gravely: “I am bound by the secret. This secret is horrible. I would have books to write about the different conclaves. Very serious things have taken place. But I can say nothing.”
Remy thinks that “if he had not been elected pope, he would have said so” with the same sort of firm, categorical “No,” given the previous question. He thus concludes that Siri had in fact been elected, but, feeling “bound by the secret”, “took refuge behind it.”.What??! Cardinal Siri refuses to answer if he was elected, and Remy takes this to mean that he was elected?? Talk about tendentious reasoning. The argument that "if he had not been elected pope, he would have said so" is completely false, because either answer (yes or no) would have likewise violated the secret of the conclave, as either answer divulges knowledge about what did or didn't happen inside. The only answer Cardinal Siri could have given that would not have divulged information about the conclave would be exactly what he said, that he cannot confirm or deny.
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Just to conclude, the last quote of Siri that "serious things took place" in the conclave doesn't mean that he was elected or threatened. It can mean literally anything. And that conclave produced Johnny Roncalli as pope(?), so yeah, no duh serious things took place in that conclave! Tell us something we don't know! But to say that "serious things took place" is equivalent to saying or somehow implies "I was elected and threatened to resign" is just silly.
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Lastly, I am extremely curious about the "suspicious" death of Scortesco, but I couldn't find anything about it on the internet. This by itself makes me question it, as it seems to be lacking in any kind of source. Do we have a police report of this fire? Was his death considered suspicious by the police? Why can't I find any mention of it on the internet, in newspaper articles or anyone else who might have thought it suspicious at the time, for the same reason we do? And did this guy have a habit of smoking cigarettes in bed? Again, Italy has a lot of very old houses that aren't exactly fire safe, and back then lots of people smoked cigarettes. This is now 30 years after the election of Roncalli, so I'm assuming Scortesco is getting up in years by this point. We need a little more evidence than "he was found burned in his bed" to really conclude that he was murdered.