Former US National Security Advisor Gen James Jones has declared Memo unreliable.

In his affidavit sent to Asma Jahangir Gen James Jones said that a few days before May 9, 2011, he received a phone call from Mansoor ljaz. During the call Mansoor Ijaz mentioned that he had a message from the ‘highest authority  in the Pakistan government but he did not mention that it was from Husain Haqqani.

Former National Security Advisor James Jones has submitted a confidential affidavit in which he swears that he has no reason to believe that former Pakistani Ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani had any role in "memogate."

"A few days before May 9, 2011, I received a phone call from Mr. Mansoor ljaz. I have known Mr. ljaz in a personal capacity since 2006. During the call Mr. Ijaz mentioned that he had a message from the ‘highest authority  in the Pakistan government which he asked me to relay to then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs  of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen," Jones wrote in the confidential affidavit.

"At no time during the call do I remember Mr. Ijaz mentioning Ambassador Haqqani, and he gave me no reason to believe that he was acting at the direction of Ambassador Haqqani, with his participation, or that Ambassador Haqqani had knowledge of the call or the contents of the message."

Jones told Ijaz he would only forward the message to Mullen if it was in writing. On May 9, Ijaz sent the unsigned memo to Jones s personal e-mail account and Jones passed it on to Mullen. Mullen has acknowledged that he received the memo but claims he gave it no credence and took no action on it whatsoever.

"It was my assumption that the memo was written by Mr. Ijaz, since the memo essentially put into writing the language he had used in our telephone conversation earlier," Jones wrote in his affidavit. "I do not recall whether Mr. Ijaz claimed that Ambassador Haqqani had anything to do with the creation of the memo. I have no reason to believe that Ambassador Haqqani had any role in the creation of the memo, nor that he had any prior knowledge of the memo."

The Jones affidavit will be used by Haqqani s legal team to bolster Haqqani s claims that Ijaz was the author s memo, not him. Ijaz s main evidence of Haqqani s involvement is a series of Blackberry Messenger communications that Ijaz claims he had with Haqqani to discuss the memo during its formation. Ijaz has said his Blackberry is being examined by Pakistani forensic experts as part of the ongoing investigation.