John Mark Dougan

 

John Mark Dougan
Occupation	former Marine, former police officer, blogger

John Mark Dougan is an American who, in 2016, fled to Russia, to evade an investigation into allegations he was a hacker. Dougan is a former Marine and former law enforcement officer with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

In February 2016 a large amount of embarrassing information was released about figures in law enforcement in Florida, including information on Judges and FBI officials - not just local law enforcement officers. The released information included not only the home addresses of officials, it contained documents like an internal review of an officer's drug addiction, and whether it rendered him unfit for duty. Commentators speculated that the information came from Dougan, and implied he had bent or broken the law to acquire it. Dougan did not dispute that he was the original source of the leaked information, but said he had sold his website to Russian friends, and they were responsible for making the information public.

In 2019 the New York Post described Dougan as an "IT consultant", and said he had fled to Russia when he was under investigation for "hacking".

In 2005 Dougan was a Palm Beach Sheriff's deputy with access to the initial investigation into allegations Jeffrey Epstein had sexually exploited women and girls who were below the legal age of consent. Craig Unger's 2021 book, "American Kompromat" addresses whether or not Russian intelligence agencies had acquired evidence that could have been used to blackmail or compromise President Donald Trump. However, it also covered claims that Dougan had brought with him evidence that could be used to blackmail friends of Epstein in addition to Trump. The New York Post, citing The Times of London, reported that Prince Andrew is one of the individuals against whom Dougan is believed to have evidence. Dougan told The Sun that he feared that his possession of video linking Prince Andrew to sex crimes put his own life at risk.

On June 13, 2022, Dougan interviewed Daria Dugina, a prominent political analyst, and aide to her father, Aleksander Dugin, as they elebrated Russia's capture of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. He appeared to agree to hear claims that Ukrainians were committing war crimes, against their own civilians, with NATO support. He noted the similarities in their surnames.

In 2018 the Daily Beast reported he had created a persona known as “БадВолф”, or, in English, “Bad Wolf” or “BadVolf”. The Daily Beast reported Dougan had been "waging a relentless campaign against his former employer, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office", for years.

The Daily Beast's reporting described Dougan combining completely legal investigative tools and high-tech trickery, in his whistleblowing. They reported he used his first-hand knowledge of the Office's policies and procedures, and the perfectly legal tools to access public records. They said he also acquired recordings of officials engaging in sexually compromising conversations, buy using a voice modification tool, and presenting himself as a sexually available woman.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine Dougan became one of the westerners to join the "International Public Tribunal on Ukraine". This organization is run by Russians, in Russia. Justin Ling, of CBC News, named Maxim Grigoriev as the primary Russian organizer of the Tribunal.

According to Ling, the primary activity of the foreigners on the Tribunal is to echo the Russian narrative that Ukraine is being run by racist Neo-Nazis, who are using ordinary Ukrainians as human shields.

In March, 2022, Ling reported, in the Daily Beast, that Dougan said he was going to Russia occupied Ukraine to document that the USA was quietly funding biolabs developing "germ warfare" in Ukrainian labs. In July 2023 Ling reported Dougan told him that Russians had captured Javelin anti-tank missiles. Dougan said he learned how to use those missiles, when he was in the US Marine Corp, and he was available to teach Russian soldiers how to use the captured missiles.

In December 2023, when the United States Congress was about to consider providing additional funds for Ukraine to purchase American Weapons, Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and US Senator Tom Tillis, told their colleagues there was evidence Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had stolen tens of millions of dollars of previously allocated aid momey to purchase a mansion and a pair of luxury yachts. The vote was disrupted, and Congress did not allocate the funds for Ukraine, but fact-checkers confirmed the claims were lies. The two yachts in question remained for sale. Zelenskyy had not purchased a mansion.