ASSOCIATION for the RECOVERY of CHILDREN
Rescuing missing, exploited and trafficked American children
Members Of ARC's Board Of Directors
Biographies of ARC's board of directors
bazzel baz - founder and president
(View Photos) Baz is known as “the Patron Saint for Missing Kids.” He is a former CIA Intelligence Special Operations Group Paramilitary Case Officer, recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal, former counter-terrorism officer in the United States Marine Corps and a graduate of The Citadel.
In 1993 Baz founded the Association for the Recovery of Children (ARC), an organization comprised of former and active intelligence, military, and law enforcement personnel dedicated to the recovery of missing and exploited American children in foreign and domestic locations. In 2019, on invitation of the White House and DOJ, Baz introduced ARC’s legislative initiative involving severe penalties for those who sexually exploit any child under the age of 18 in the U.S.
Baz is well known globally for his expertise and extraordinary skillset. Author of "Something Bigger Than Overthrowing Small Governments", "Terrorism Survival Handbook" and several other books, he has been called on by CNN, CNBC and MSNBC as an advisor and spokesperson on the war on Terrorism and Homeland Security. He is also a film and television writer, producer and actor. Bazzel Baz co-starred as the commander of Raymond Reddington’s paramilitary group on NBC’s "The BLACKLIST" for four seasons.
Baz travels nationally and internationally as a well sought after keynote speaker, .
Tina Baz
(View Photos)Tina is Counter Human Trafficking Program Director and Legislative Liaison for ARC - The Association for the Recovery of Children. She has a life-long history of involvement in philanthropic causes in the US and South America. Since 2014 she has been professionally engaged in combating sex trafficking in the United States, specializing in child sex trafficking advocacy, intervention, victim location and recovery, and emergency assistance for individuals exploited through gang, organized crime, familial, and ritual-abuse trafficking.
Through extensive work with individuals who are actively being trafficked, seeking to leave exploitation, and navigating recovery, Tina has developed significant street-level insight into victim vulnerabilities, trauma, barriers to escape, and long-term needs, as well as the dynamics of the commercial sex trade, gang trafficking, and organized human trafficking enterprises. She has spearheaded collaborative emergency-response programs providing victim recovery assistance, triage evaluation, immediate care, and connection to residential placement and supportive services.
A graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Tina began her marketing career in the 1990s at Insight for Living, Dr. Charles Swindoll’s international radio broadcast ministry. She later launched her own marketing and management LLC.
In the 2000s, Tina also built a career in the music industry as a keyboardist/vocalist, production manager, recording producer, and artist manager. Since 2009, she has served as artist manager for Darrell Mansfield (Blues Hall of Fame “Blues Master” inductee) from 2009-present. She served for several years as an associate member of The Recording Academy (GRAMMYs).
Sharkey Baz (Former/Deceased)
(View Photos)Sharkey Baz was an airline Transport Pilot with over fifty years of flying experience with 14,000 + hours. Certified Flight Instructor/Instrument Instructor, Single and Multi-engine aircraft both land and sea. Type rated in Lear, Citation Jets and King Air 350 prior owner of Lear 003) Chief Pilot of Citrus World, Director of Aviation Polk Air Inc., Director of Aviation Alpha Jet Inc. Panorama Air Tours Hawaii, ComAir Orlando Fla., and VP Tires Unlimited. He was a retired Major United States Army, former 8th Special Forces Group (Green Beret) and distinguished combatant from conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. He also served as Senior Military Police Advisor to the Georgia National Guard, Forces Command Headquarters, and United States Air Force Crew Chief KB-29 Air Refueling. Sharkey held a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Law from the University of Nebraska and attended Language School (Spanish) in Monterey California. He was the recipient of Prcht Badge, GCMDL, ARCOM w/1st OLC, EIB, AFRM, VCM w/60 Dev, VSM w/4 Bronze Stars, VCG w/Palm, AM, BSM , Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Royal Thai Supr Mst Badge, MSM.
Tom Flores (Former/Deceased)
(View Photos)Tom Flores was Director for worldwide corporate security for Fluor Corporation. He was accountable for directing and managing corporate security efforts across a wide spectrum of project types including oil and gas, mining, industrial, and government as well as corporate investigations concerning fraud, waste, and corruption throughout the world. Rising to the rank of Colonel, Mr. Flores served from 1966-1990 in the U.S. Army that included multiple combat tours in aviation and ground assignments. He held a variety of command and staff assignments to include duty in the 82d Airborne Division (1977-81), public policy development on the Army General Staff at the Pentagon (1984), human intelligence collection in Central America (1984-85), and worked for U.S. senators as a Congressional Fellow (1986-87). He served in U.S. Special Forces in both Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations (1976-77). Mr. Flores served in Latin America in the Defense Attaché’s Office in Peru (1982-83) and as an Inspector General (1990-91), responsible for investigating alleged improper conduct of senior army officials. He also served as Professor of Military Science at the University of Arizona (1987-89).
Mr. Flores was a Foreign Affairs and Congressional Fellow at Johns Hopkins University where he was tasked with organizing POW/MIA Veteran’s Affairs Committee hearings for Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona (1986-87). He held a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Santa Clara University (1966), Master of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Louisville (1976), and a Master of Arts Degree in Management/Human Relations from Webster University (1979). He was also a graduate of the Centro de Academicos y Estudios Militares of the Escuela Superior de Guerra (Peruvian War College) in Lima, Peru (1983).
William A. Wilson (Former/Deceased)
(View Photos)William A. Wilson, Los Angeles businessman and a member of President Reagan’s “kitchen cabinet," was appointed the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Not only was he a member of the inner circle of advisors who persuaded Reagan to run for California governor in 1966, and then helped guide his political campaigns but a friend and advisor who aided ARC in navigating major fault lines within the United States and abroad, bringing a 14,000-foot view of the corruption and political players that undermine the efforts of most NGOs in the war against trafficking. To date, his contributions allow ARC to connect the dots that mitigate liability when dealing with the “forces of darkness” that make exploitation of children part of their financial platform, whether that be in politics, industry, global expansion or the undercurrent of secret societies.
Unknown to most of the world, it was the brilliant--and highly sensitive--strategy of President Reagan in appointing Ambassador Wilson to the Vatican that has now yielded much of the intelligence that uncovered the sex trafficking and abuse of children that has occurred within the Roman Catholic Church.
About ARC
The Association for the Recovery of Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (est. 1993) comprised of former intelligence (CIA), military special operators and law enforcement personnel that rescue missing, exploited, abducted or trafficked American children being held in the US or overseas. ARC’s all-encompassing child recovery program comes at no cost to the custodial parents. We don't come home without the child.
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