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Show "BIOLOGICAL WARFARE" BUGABOO Germs as Weapons Potent but Exaggerated James Forrestal. retiring secretary secre-tary of defense, has broken an official of-ficial three-year military silence on ine use or discussion ot the term "biological warfare" and In a formal for-mal statement characterized much that has been written about the potency of germ weapons as "exaggerated, "exag-gerated, tantaslic or unduly spectacular." Forrestal advised the public tln "it would be tolly to underestlmai the potentialities of biological wj fare" and he disclosed that n search had shown that "germs v their poisonous products could I used effectively as weapons r war." At the same time he dense the existence of any "blologu , super-weapon." The secretary I statement ended a secrecy curb. |