The Color Confusion in the 1958 Papal Enclave

There were multiple misreadings of smoke signals during the 1958 papal enclaves. In the 1980s, an ultra conservative Catholic named Gary Gefir decided to use the color confusion in the 1958 enclave to push a conspiracy theory that said there was a pope who was decided when that first white smoke was seen and it was this conservative cardinal named Giuseppe Sirey. Hodden: It's an elaborate theory he promotes because the church he wants to belong to doesn't support him denying the Holocaust and believing in ridiculous anti-Semitic conspiracies.