Horace Rodgers, age 16, of Springfield, I11., for his question:

WHAT DOES KGB STAND FOR?

KBG is the Soviet secret police charged with defending the Soviet regime against internal and foreign enemies. In full it is the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, which means the Committee of State Security.

Among the KGB's principal internal functions are surveillance of the Soviet population to ensure political loyalty, through networks of secret informers controlled by KGB agents; suppression of anti Soviet behavior by means of interrogation and trial of suspects and by incarceration of security risks in prisons, forced labor camps or psychiatric hospitals; supervision of the political loyalty of the armed forces; and control of the Border Guard.

In all these functions the KGB works in close association with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, called the MVD, which controls the regular police, the prisons and the forced labor camps.

The KGB's principal foreign functions are espionage and counterespionage and the conduct of covert operations aimed at strengthening Soviet power and influence.