Nicolae Pleșiță Nicolae Pleșiță Nicolae Pleșiță (; April 26, 1929 – September 28, 2009) was a Romanian intelligence official and secret police investigator. From 1980 to 1984, he led the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Securitate, the secret service of Communist Romania. He was described by the "New York Times" and Associated Press at the time of his death as "a die-hard Communist and ruthless chief of the Securitate secret police." A participant in various actions taken against armed or peaceful anti-communist groups, Pleșiță began his career as a Romanian Communist Party cadre, and rose through the ranks of the Securitate while
Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudău Nicolae Dudau (born December 19, 1945) is a Moldovan politician and was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova. He was born on December 19, 1945 in Grinauti, Ocnița District, in the Moldovan SSR. From 1988 to 1990 he was the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Moldovan SSR. From 1990 to 1991 he was the First Secretary of the Chisinau City Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. In 1994 he became the Ambassador of Moldova to Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 1997, Daudu was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs