Pieter Friedrich, ‘Toolkit’ writer and the white face of ISI-Khalistan

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Pieter Friedrich with Bhajan Singh and his wife
Pieter Friedrich with Bhajan Singh and his wife

 

New Delhi

The "toolkit" posted by global climate activist Greta Thunberg had a "foreign expert" as resource person. This American former priest Pieter Friedrich’s identity has been uncovered during the open source intelligence investigation on the info-war against India by The Disinfolab.

A report "THE UN-ENDING WAR: From Proxy War to Info-War against India," says that the violent protests against Delhi police on Republic day were the culmination of a plant that its proponents had been involved since 2007. Those involved also include a slew of shady companies in the US, fake foreign experts and ghost entities.

This network was targeting Indian interest at the global scale, including even Indian origin American politicians.

The story also decodes how some of the most prolific and influential people in India – from media to journalists and intellectuals - provided a nourishing eco-system to the network in damaging Indian interests, as per Disinfolab.

The report says the Pieter’s name surfaced accidently in the toolkit dropped by Thunberg. The toolkit said: "Pieter was part of a story we were already working since about a month in context of info-war against India."  

Pieter Friedrich was hired by the known Khalistani ideologue Bhajan Singh when he was struggling with his finances and was looking for a job of a security man.

Here is a page from Disinfo lab repor posted on Twitter:

According to the Disinfo Lab report, the story goes far back into the past. During the turmoil of 1980s, a hitherto an unknown Khalistani Bhajan Singh Bhinder @Iqbal Choudhary appears on scene. He claimed his origins from Malaysia, and was operating from the US. He was essentially funding the terror network for carrying out large-scale violence in various cities in India through another rerrorist Lal Singh with the help of Pakistan's ISI. Indian escaped the the attack by a whisker when Lal Singh got arrested from Dadar railway station. Bhinder was eventually also put in India's Black-list till 2011.

Lal Singh’s interrogation revealed the links of Bhajan Singh with ISI. His arrest led to the end of their plans to smuggle arms via Pakistan into India for terrorism.

According to the Disinfo Lab report, Bhajan Singh and his patrons in ISI took to another way to continue their anti-India campaign. Bhajan Singh hired Pieter, who had writing abilities of some sort, as a ‘white man whose involvement in the plot cannot be suspected.”

The attacks were part of a larger conspiracy called K-2 (Kashmir – Khalistan) which was hatched in Lahore under the patronage of Amir ul Azeem, the then Secretary of Jamaat–e-Islami, and being supported by several Pakistani establishment players including Choudhary Altaf Hussain, eventually Governor of Punjab (Pakistan) and uncle of present S&T Minister of Pakistan Fawad Chaudhary.

Disinformation Lab describes itself as an organisation that is into investigating infor-warfare and psychological warfare, open source intelligence investigation, data journalism, big data and says iy's not into fact checking and has no links with any other organisation with a similar name. 

At the same time, while in US, Bhinder and his gang was also involved in a major trans-national drug trafficking network, and a DVD piracy network. In order to fund their drug network, they managed to take control of one of the most prominent Gurudwaras in the US (Fremont Gurudwara), after a bloody fight within it. Fremont receives millions of dollars in contribution from devotees every year.

The report said that all this while Bhinder has also been trying to procure weapons to be sent to India via Pakistan. His quest of arms almost got him in the police net in the US. An investigation by DEA Special Agent Tim Lum reveals that Bhinder was looking for massive fire power to be sent to India. The deal however failed to materialise, as Bhinder got suspicious about the Agent. It was a close call for Bhinder.

It added that with change of millennium, Bhinder also changed his methods. In the early 2000, after the efforts to send weapons to India failed, and with new media and online platforms mushrooming, Bhinder (or the masterminds behind him) decided to shift focus towards launching info-war against India. To this end he plans to set up flimsy organisation and scouts for a suitable ‘white face', who could be used as face for the info-war operations.

"By 2006-7 Bhinder finds a young Christian Missionary Pieter Freidrich, who seemed to have a decent oratory and writing skills but was still wanting in terms of economic means. Pieter was even willing to work as security guard, and hence the offer to become an expert-activist' would have been quite lucrative to refuse. Pieter came on board and finds a new role as an anti-Gandhi crusader," the report said.