Have to agree with Caminus here.
I like to say it because it's so rare when I'm able to.
But the Siri thesis is based entirely on circuмstantial evidence. Moreover, if he was elected Pope, he is now an anti-Pope, unless he can produce his true Magisterium to counter the false one of Vatican II. Yet we know he was a Vatican II cardinal.
The other question, the one that always gets ignored -- who is his successor and how was he appointed if Cardinal Siri was under constant surveillance?
Like sedeprivationism, the Siri thesis is a harmless way for people to square not having had a Pope for fifty years with their own consciences. For many it's very scary. Not for me, because I believe the Apocalypse clearly refers to this event.
When I say "harmless" I mean for everyone else but David Hobson. He is the only one I know of who seems to think acceptance of Siri as Pope is mandatory for salvation.
The whole thing with the smoke strikes me as smoke and mirrors ( get it? ) It reminds me of Windswept House, Malachi Martin sensationalism, or maybe the staged rescue of Jessica Lynch. A true Pope was elected, then they strongarmed him and within ten minutes sent out more smoke.
I'm sorry, these people are not that clumsy. The smoke may have sent out as a kind of "revelation of the method." The official story of 9/11 was meant to look staged, the official story was intended to sound phony. That is sort of how the devil operates these days -- he shows you he is behind certain events, knowing that people will deny it and thus they will become double-minded and will go into denial. It's a form of psychological trauma he enjoys inflicting on people.
Most people, just to get on with their lives, do not want to acknowledge the existence of such evil, but by not acknowledging it, they become more or less a part of it... Sorry if I'm getting too abstruse. But the smoke from the elections in 1958 and 1963 works according to the same principle, it's a sign that something is wrong, that the devil knows most people will ignore, thus becoming slightly more complicit in his plot.