Datuk Chin Phui Kong (26 December 1923–20 January 2024) was a Malaysian world-renowned ichthyologist, retired civil servant, author and World War II secret agent and veteran.

[1][2] The British approached Chin and other Malayan and Borneoan students who were stranded in China in 1944 because of their trilingual ability; Malay, English, and Mandarin.

Unaware of the nature of the task force to which he was assigned, the students were dispatched to India or Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) to receive commando training from the British military.

Chin was then commissioned as a Second lieutenant in the British Indian Army and assigned to Force 136's Dragon Six unit before receiving parachute and demolition training in India.

Their mission was to parachute into Perak to assist and train Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) guerillas, as well as to prepare Malaya for British forces to arrive.

[note 1] On 12 June 1945, he and four other agents boarded a bomber plane from Calcutta for 12 hours before jumping into Bidor, Perak.