Metropolitan Iriney (Irenaeus, secular name Igor Vladimirovich Susemihl, ; July 10, 1919 in Chernigov, Russian Empire – July 26, 1999 in Vienna, Austria) was a metropolitan bishop of Vienna and Austria of the Russian Orthodox Church. Throughout his church career, Metropolitan Iriney served the Soviet Union as a KGB recruiter and longtime handler of George Trofimoff, the highest ranking traitor in the history of the U.S. Army. Life Igor Vladimirovich Susemihl was born in 1919, the son of an agronomist. When he was six years old, his family moved to Berlin, Weimar Germany as White emigres. Soon after, Igor's widowed mother, Antonina, married Vladimir Sharavov, a former officer in the White Army. Beginning in 1928, the Sharavov family took in George Trofimoff, the son of a White emigre who was unable to provide for his son. Trofimoff remained with the Sharavovs until 1943, when he returned to his father. 6 December 1942, Igor was ordained a deacon by Metropolitan Seraphim (Lade) (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia). Following the Second World War, he moved to Australia with his wife and children. Deacon Igor later received an Ecclesiastical divorce and was ordained as a hieromonk by the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. After taking the monastic name Father Iriney, he served from 1966 to 1972 as auxiliary bishop of Munich and West Germany. In 1972, he was consecrated as Metropolitan of Vienna and All Austria. During that era, Metropolitan Iriney renewed his acquaintance with Trofimoff, who had become a Colonel in the United States Army specializing in military intelligence. In 1969, Colonel Trofimoff had been promoted to the head of the U.S. Army element at the Nuremberg Joint Interrogation Center, a clearing house for Soviet and Eastern Bloc defectors. Trofimoff's indictment states that, after learning that his foster brother was chronically short of funds, Iriney "recruited him into the service of the KGB." The indictment states that the KGB possessed several similar collaborators among Moscow Patriarchate clergy, both inside and outside of the USSR. At the time, Iriney was auxiliary bishop of Munich and West Germany, but later became the Metropolitan of Vienna and Austria in 1975. He continued to hold this position until his death in 1999. Beginning in the 1960s, Trofimoff and the Metropolitan met often and maintained a close personal relationship. In a 1999 conversation with an undercover FBI agent, Trofimoff described his recruitment as follows, ...it