In an article published by the "Adevărul" daily, Radu denied allegations of his supposed involvement with the "Securitate": "I have not collaborated with the "Securitate"…in 1986 there was an attempt to recruit me. I refused politely and I was never contacted again." The article revealed that in 1989 Radu's name was found on a list of 1,000+ people entitled "support persons" of the "Securitate". In another interview for the same daily, Radu explained that in 1986 he had been asked by the "Securitate" to collaborate due to his successful career as an actor: "Everybody who was somebody knew that there was this risk" to be called upon by "Securitate" to become an informer. At that time Radu had been working on an Iaşi stage as a theatre graduate for two years and was about to go on his second and last theatre tour abroad to Israel, accompanying two renowned Romanian actors. The former head of the local Iaşi branch of the "Securitate" explained in an interview that a "support person" such as Duda and the other people on the 1,000+ list were not informers, did not sign any agreement with the "Securitate", nor did they receive money, but were Communist Party members, in particular people who traveled abroad, targeted by the "Securitate" with the Party's approval to carry out well-defined missions for a limited period of time. He also confirmed in a subsequent interview that the list in question is real.