one of the big mistakes by everyone in connection with Steele dossier is to think in terms of LeCarre's Cold War epics, when the reality is LeCarre's Tailor of Panama. Read this excerpt. 
2/ Danchenko corresponds to Harry, the Tailor of Panama, who is recruited by Osnard, an ambitious and greedy idiot in UK spy agency. Harry needed money. Like Danchenko. Harry had no sources, so he made them up. Transforming nobodies into "sources", then making up stories.
3/ the plot line of Tailor of Panama is a re-make of Graham Greene's 1959 novella Our Man in Havana, another "spy" recruited by UK spy agency who had no sources, so he made everything up.
4/ but the truth is stranger than fiction. The real plot of the Steele dossier narrative only begins after the election, when Comey and the FBI weaponized Danchenko's fantasies to undermine the incoming Trump administration by imposing Mueller-Weissmann special counsel.
5/ to be precise, above excerpt is from a contemporary book review of Tailor of Panama, not a quote from LeCarre (who would never articulate his plot line like this; LeCarre plot lines unfold gradually.)
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