Caplin's Opposition to the Delivery System

Why would they choose the town of of pont saint espri to conduct these tests? It was half destroyed by the us. Army during fighting with the germans in the second world war. The symptoms that people suffered, although similar, don't quite fit what we modernly think of as ta drug. They also tried to poison the entire new york subway with ls d in the fifties,. but that was shut down by higher ups in the central intelligenceunfortunately.