The explosive ‘dossier’ on Donald Trump, and how it emerged, reads like a Cold War spy novel

The story reads like a John le Carre Cold War novel, complete with Moscow’s bad guys, Great Britain’s MI6 spy agency and Washington’s FBI counter-intelligence. But the saga is taking place now, in real life. The capitals London, Moscow and Washington have been entwined in a political thriller by an unverified, once-secret, dossier on President-elect Donald…